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...McCain has admitted his humanness and his mistakes. I like goodness, mercy, honor, faithfulness, doing the right thing and, in McCain?s case, being tough enough to weather the troubles sure to face him as President. None of these qualities guarantee success, but they do provide the foundations for sound decisions. Malcolm Koch, Waldport, Oregon...
...Caribbean FIERCE WEATHER Four storms in as many weeks have battered the Caribbean, spurring repeated mass evacuations and a climbing death toll. In Haiti, where areas of most of the nation's provinces are underwater, the storms have left an estimated 1,000 people dead and millions without food, water and shelter. In Cuba few deaths have been reported, but 2.6 million people--a quarter of the nation's population--sought refuge from Ike. Cuba's government has predicted damage in the billions of dollars...
...Malkin Athletic Center for those who needed it and that the Science Center could act as a makeshift shelter for “as few of you as possible.” “We’re working on back-up plans. There are weather challenges coming soon,” she said. “It’s not going to get better.” Leaders from the First-Year International Program and the First-Year Urban Program also arrived to help as freshmen trickled through the Science Center doors. “It?...
...aren't bothering to unpack as they grapple with the prospect of a powerful new storm, Ike. The category one hurricane has been downgraded to a category one storm and now appears to be headed west of Louisiana toward Galveston, Texas, but that's only partial relief to the weather-weary residents of Louisiana. (See photos of Hurricane Gustav's damage here...
...National Weather Service now projects that Ike, which has just skirted across the Caribbean and is situated atop Cuba's western coast, is most likely bound for Texas, with a possible landfall near Galveston later this week. But even the agency's advisory Tuesday morning warned that such forecasts can be terribly wrong. "Right now, anyone who lives along the Texas-Louisiana coast needs to be prepared for the potential of a major hurricane," warns Walt Zaleski, meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Fort Worth, Texas, office. Ike is expected to gain strength from the Gulf of Mexico...