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After Hurricane Andrew tore across South Florida in 1992, the slow federal response exasperated Hale, then Dade County's director of emergency management. She famously said on TV, "Where the hell is the cavalry on this...
Then the injury bug hit. Brown strained a hamstring against Penn. Sparkplug Brendan Byrne tore his meniscus. Slugger Josh Klimkiewicz hurt his elbow in a collision with Brown’s Steve Daniels...
...playing two goalies,” Anderson said. “If something like that happened we’d have a guy ready to go.”...The first of Calvert’s three goals on Saturday struck the net with such force that it actually tore a hole in the goal, causing a slight delay in the game. Fittingly, Calvert holds the team-lead in points, having scored 38 on the season.—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
These networks are able to grow far larger than they ever could have before the Internet tore down geographic boundaries, and this enables them to do some pretty special things. Airliners.net, a web site where airplane enthusiasts (they really do exist!) can gather and swap photos, has a database with pictures of just about every commercial plane in service, tens of thousands in all, and surely part of Wikipedia’s success is due to the community of people interested in organizing information which has sprung up around...
...YURI ZARAKHOVICH, TIME Moscow Correspondent Charming Prechistenka Street leads you to the Temple of Christ the Savior, pictured. Emperor Nicolas I ordered a 14th century convent razed in 1837 to build the original cathedral. The Bolsheviks tore it down in 1931, and the site hosted a swimming pool until the cathedral was re-erected in the 1990s. Mull over Russia's vagaries at the National Hotel's Moskovsky Restaurant on Mokhovaya Street, where the fabulous view of the Kremlin complements the traditional Russian food...