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• Thunderous storm-chasing vacations
Some weather-crazy storm chasers actually rushed toward Mother Nature's worst, clamoring to get an up close and personal look at the pulse-pounding action. “There are a lot of adrenaline junkies out there,” says Roger Hill, a Denver-based storm ...
• You Can Weather the Economic Storm
In the Pennsylvania Rust Belt, things aren't as dire as headlines would suggest. In Allentown, the quintessential blue-collar city, a renaissance has taken root downtown. At the heart of the action is a 400-seat brasserie housed in a former furniture ...
• Soldiers' Deployment Leaves Restaurants Uneasy
... with the deployment of 3,500 Schofield Barracks soldiers left some Wahiawa businesses concerned. On Friday night, a ceremony recognized those soldiers deploying to the war zone, and area businesses, already facing hard times, prepared to weather what ...
• Official: Plane crash near Mt. Everest kills 18
KATMANDU, Nepal - A small airplane crashed and caught fire Wednesday as it tried to land in foggy weather at a tiny mountain airport near Mount Everest, killing 18 people, including 16 tourists from Germany, Australia and Nepal, officials said. Only ...
• Climate change helps spread deadly diseases
... relationship between health and climate," William Karesh of the society told a news conference in Barcelona to launch the report at an International Union for Conservation of Nature congress. Among phrases, people said they were "under the weather ...