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...sheer arrogance of the article about California's fires was astounding. So we should not live in fire-prone areas? Perhaps people in New England shouldn't live in snow-prone areas, people in the Midwest shouldn't live in tornado-prone areas, and people in the Southeast shouldn't live in hurricane-prone areas. Storms in other parts of the U.S. cause far more deaths, injuries and economic losses every year than do the relatively infrequent major fires in California. Perhaps you can suggest a spot on the planet where we can all live free of risk...
...Dad†to “friendless alcoholic divorcee,†we also meet Bethany, a fellow employee whose obsession with death has expressed itself in her Dracula-esque clothing and makeup choices.Bethany and Roger’s mutual misery condenses into a super-tornado of woe when the former begins writing messages in the latter’s journal. The two find common ground in their shared hatred of Staples (or “Shtooples,†depending on the mood of the entry), their penchant for personal loss, and their unshakable self-loathing. The journal...
...Allegations of bribery against BAE began surfacing in London in the late 1980's, in connection with the $85 billion al-Yamamah weapons-for-oil deal under which BAE agreed, in 1985, to supply Tornado jets and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia. But it was many years before Britain's Serious Fraud Office began to investigate, and its inquiry was brought to an abrupt halt by the Blair government in December 2006. The stated reason - that the probe could cost British jobs and imperil important ties - carried the obvious implication was that Britain could not afford allow awkward truths...
Then chaos erupted with a flash and, as a witness put it, a "tornado of flames." Nine men perished when the roof fell into the inferno...
...tornado so huge it looked like Satan's wide-tip marker obliterated an entire Kansas town with winds over 200 m.p.h. Days later, when President George W. Bush arrived to dispense hugs and sympathy, he found scarcely a roof still on four walls. Not a leaf left clinging to a tree. Lumber scraps lay strewn like hay behind a boisterous hayride...