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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 2003
Page
9
Dana Ransford fled her Chelan home with her seven year old daughter Madison as a fast moving wildfire threatened three houses. A storm sparked multiple fires across north central Washington driven by lightning.
Record heat rages across Europe with roads buckling in Germany and Danube water levels falling. London logs its hottest day, Paris nears a 1947 peak, and Italy notes one of its warmest summers in half a century as drought and monsoon patterns intensify.
Civil servants in Brasilia break windows during a protest against Brazil’s social security reform bill. The lower house approved the reform that would cut civil servants pensions.
Harry the Sumatran tiger joins a new Mareeba Wild Animal Park enclosure in Mareeba Australia after a monthlong quarantine. The two tigers were flown in from England to a bush environment release amid concerns the wild population numbers about 350 remaining.
Liza Minnelli says she still has feelings for David Gest after their July split from a 16 month marriage. Gest stays in Hawaii while Minnelli stays at a Beverly Hills hotel as she focuses on work to get through heartbreak.
Notables born today include Stan Freberg writer producer and humorist Bluesman Magic Slim actress Verna Bloom humorist Garrison Keillor singer B J Thomas actor Wayne Knight Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden actor David Duchovny Charlize Theron and others born in 1961.
Oprah Winfrey will expand guidance beyond books relationships and weight loss to furniture and bedspreads. O, The Oprah Magazine will publish a 48 page home design supplement next month bundled with the October issue mailed to 1.6 million subscribers with two more supplements planned next year.
Stephen King, famed Bangor author, launches a monthly column in Entertainment Weekly titled The Pop of King. He writes about books films television music and more marking his first regular column since his college days at the University of Maine.
Naomi Watts accelerates her career with nine films in two years and four in the can. Her upcoming Le Divorce with Kate Hudson opens in New York and Los Angeles before wider release.
The New York Post reports Prince Harry, William's younger brother, hosts many women at a basement area called Club H at Highgrove estate in Scotland. Vanity Fair notes his habit of enticing women with a drink invitation and engaging in romances in a lavish lair.
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