Word: weather
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...nearly seven years the starving, drought-stricken people of western Sudan yearned for rain. But when wet weather finally arrived this month, it proved to be yet another kind of curse. A heavy deluge produced flash floods that raced through long-dry riverbeds and rushed over brick-hard earth, turning airstrips into quagmires and rendering roads and rail lines impassable. The torrent washed out a vital railroad bridge that linked the region to Port Sudan, cutting off hundreds of thousands of famine victims from emergency food supplies...
...fact begun with an air-raid alert for the city just after 7, but the B-29 soon passed over, and the all clear was sounded. This was the weather plane that advised the Enola Gay that the target was open. Schoolchildren looked forward to air-raid alerts, which allowed them to stop working. Kawamoto said goodbye to his mother, who told him to take care of himself. He plonked a shovel on his shoulder and strode soldier-like toward the railway station...
...Gannett Co., parent firm of USA Today. "Most of the content ideas, the packaging, color and graphics are the result of what television and the newsmagazines have been doing for a long time." Leaning back in his chair, Neuharth, 61, turns to the paper's full-page weather map. "This is a direct, absolute steal from Willard Scott and other TV weathermen." Neuharth pauses. "The question is, can you redo it in a way that makes folks want...
...executives at papers ranging from the Minneapolis Star and Tribune to the New York Daily News to the Orlando Sentinel acknowledge that USA Today's sports coverage has led them to beef up their own sections. Many newspapers have sprinkled their front pages with bold colors, expanded their weather maps and added more charts and sidebars. Though most editors contend that their papers were moving in that direction anyway, some acknowledge that USA Today blazed the path. "Editors are now aware that you can get a lot of information into a chart or graph rather than...
...Papp and the Shubert Organization, which lent a theater; Mike Nichols, who offered to direct; Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels, who volunteered to produce; and Phil Donahue, who came on as emcee. Performers filled the stage: Joan Rivers, Gregory Hines, Penny Marshall, Steve Martin, Randy Newman and the Weather Girls. The event, which took place May 19, raised more than...