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...season in the last weeks of summer, but the ferocious blazes rarely start this early. "It's burning like October," said Dan Kleinman of the U.S. Forest Service. Meteorologists blame a mammoth high-pressure system, centered over Utah and bringing temperatures as high as 112 F, for the weather conditions that have fostered the fires. The climatic front has locked the Western states into a kind of giant sauna, where dry heat settles, ocean breezes cannot penetrate and nighttime temperatures remain high. "We're facing all of July and August," said Clyde O'Dell, a Boise-based federal meteorologist...
...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...
...During reading period there is often more free time than there is other times during the year, and the weather is nice enough that students can go out,” said Adams, who co-sponsored the bill...