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...Dark Age coming but the dawn of the Newt Age. So shake off your gloom, doom and Newtophobia. Let there be color and hope...
...country's worst earthquake in more than 70 years. The jolt that hit Kobe (pop. 1.5 million) just before dawn on Tuesday measured 7.2 on the Richter scale. The numbers alone told the chilling story: some 5,000 confirmed dead, 200 still missing, 25,000 injured, 300,000 homeless. As exhausted relief workers sifted through the rubble of what was once the country's second busiest port, survivors waited stoically in line for hours for a small bottle of water and a fist-size ball of rice. Offers of help came from all over the world, and as each...
America's preoccupation with crime can be summed up by what happened on Jan. 7 in Vidalia, Georgia, a small town known mostly for its sweet onions. Before dawn, dozens of state and federal law officers started banging on doors all over the town's north side. Within minutes, 46 gangsters and crack dealers were in handcuffs, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes, while law-abiding neighbors cheered the gangbusters. The task force had been called in by Vidalia's 26-man police force, which had recently found itself outgunned by homegrown drug sellers who were terrorizing citizens...
...wayfinding, an aerospace engineer, and three mothers of small children. As impressive and eclectic as the women are, however, only two are experienced in big-boat match racing. By contrast, virtually all the members of the men's teams have that critical background. "We're the underdogs," says helmsman Dawn Riley, "so we have to work 110% harder...
...dying utter memorable words, see visions, or depart with beatified countenances, and those who have sped many parting souls know that to most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep. As Beth had hoped, 'the tide went out easily,' and in the dark hour before the dawn, on the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last, with no farewell but one loving look, one little sigh...