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...nights watching the horizon as twisters cut deadly swaths nearby. Twice, he says, they touched down on his property, tearing up fences and farm equipment, though luckily missing his house. One night, while waiting up in a storm-induced blackout, he wondered whether there was a better way to warn people that a twister was forming: "I knew that the one thing that always worked in the disasters was the phone lines, because they are buried. So I invented a system that would provide storm warnings to rural areas where there are no sirens through the phone lines...
Comic strip authors are often quick to warn against taking their work too seriously. After all, humor is the name of the game. But humor can take many forms, and Cho's brand was unique. Through the character of Puck--an insecure, self-doubting student whose big hair hid an ever-so-fragile ego--Cho painted a world not entirely unfamiliar to his readers...
While last year, HUPD's first community advisory was issued in mid-October to warn about the Yard Burglar, HUPD has already issued 13 this fall...
...sense of calm in the middle of lawyers. For that we can thank the Founders for inventing a constitutional structure that provides a safety net for the uncertain hours. And the country is held together by will as well. On TV, the handlers of the two candidates continue to warn against fistfights in the halls, but they are the only ones likely to throw a punch. The rest of us--perhaps because the election is so close, and not in spite of that--are imperfectly content to see whoever emerges emerge. America has one great ghost in the attic...
...might think this is reasonable--Harvard has many rare books, you might say, and could lose money. Worse, the books I want to read could disappear if they weren't careful, warn the librarians...