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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1997
Page
3
Powerful 90 mph winds drove the 368 ft freighter Kuroshima aground off Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians. Coast Guard rescued 16 survivors by line as two crewmen died and others were stranded for hours. Captain reportedly Japanese and most crew Filipino.
Strong gusts up to 40 mph battered the Macy's parade in New York injuring four people and damaging 17 balloons. The Cat in the Hat struck a lamppost, scattering debris and injuring two spectators, while several others suffered minor head injuries as handlers struggled to control the inflatables along the route from the Upper West Side to Herald Square.
An Associated Press poll of 1 014 adults finds only 12 percent plan to spend more on gifts this Christmas and 56 percent will spend about the same as in recent years. Most expect family finances to improve next year, while 31 percent forecast spending declines.
Smithsonian researchers analyzed over 10 000 specimens from 246 species at Turkana Basin sites in Ethiopia and Kenya and found no evidence of an abrupt evolutionary surge during 2.8 to 2.5 million years ago. They warn sampling bias complicates distinguishing genuine evolution from fossil abundance.
President Clinton phoned the Columbia crew from Camp David to salute their sacrifice and celebrate the Monday satellite recovery. The six astronauts including one Japanese and one Ukrainian spoke of missing families yet shared Thanksgiving aboard the shuttle with science experiments and a turkey dinner.
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