Strong Japan quakes and typhoon strike in Sunday events
Two major earthquakes, magnitudes 6.9 and 7.3, rocked western Japan injuring 14 and rattling Osaka Kyoto and Nagoya. Tsunami waves up to 3 feet were observed along the Pacific Coast while Wakayama bore the strongest regional impact. A separate typhoon on Okinawa injured 15 and headed toward the main islands with heavy rain and winds.
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Tokyo
Japan
Wakayama
Osaka
Kyoto
Nagoya
Pacific
Okinawa
Death toll from southwest China floods rises to 55
Rescuers in Sichuan sought help from the military as they searched for dozens missing after days of torrential rain caused mudslides and landslides. State media Xinhua said the death toll climbed to 55 with hundreds trapped and rain forecast to continue.
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Beijing
China
Sichuan
Xinhua
Pope John Paul II beatifies three Catholics on Rome trip
In sunny Loreto Italy Pope John Paul II declares three Catholics beatified amid a three hour ceremony to a 200000 strong crowd. He proclaims blessing and support as the group from Catholic Action includes Pedro Torres y Claret Alberto Marvelli and Pina Suriano.
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Loreto
Italy
John Paul II
Catholic Action
Pedro Torres Y Claret
Alberto Marvelli
Pina Suriano
Arbor Day painting display boosts History Center in Cedar Rapids
History Center Director Martha Aldridge said a hastily arranged loan brought Wood's Arbor Day painting to Cedar Rapids with security upgrades and a gallery space. Audry Linge-Ovel and John Linge financed the conversion for future exhibitions, featuring School of McKinley images and related materials from 1928 to 1932.
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History Center
Martha Aldridge
Koch
Des Moines
Aldridge
The
Audrey Linge-Ovel
John Linge
Wood
Sinclair Lewis
McKinley Junior High School
Catherine Motejl
Rose Waterstadt
McKinley
Frances Prescott
Wood Graham
Prescott
Iowa
Jo Scheer
Cedar Rapids
Betty Coquillette
Liz Condo
the Gazette
Nova Daniels
Swisher
Grant Wood
Genesis solar wind particles face fragile return and reentry test
NASA engineers monitor a risky entry for the Genesis capsule as it returns from interplanetary travel. If misaligned, the mission could yield months of analysis from broken disks and force a six month reattempt while scientists aim to recover solar wind samples and study the sun’s origin.
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NASA
California
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Genesis
Earth
Moon
Roy Haggard
Vertigo Inc
Charles Blachi
Pasadena
Calif
Don Burnett
California Institute of Technology
Utah
West Desert
US Fatalities and Wounded Fluctuate in Iraq in August
Defense Department tallies show 66 U S service members killed in August in Iraq, the highest since May, with wounded rising. Despite armored units reducing fatalities, heavy combat in Najaf and ongoing IED threats kept casualty dynamics unsettled.
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U.S
Iraq
Defense Department
Baghdad
Col
Ryck Beitz
Najaf
Old City
Babylon
Dellone Pascascio
Baghdad Combat Hospital
Hurricane 9 kills in Bahamas and U S coastline
The hurricane 9 system struck the Bahamas causing two deaths and displacing thousands. In Florida a man died when his car hit a tree and a woman died as a mobile home was crushed by a falling oak. The storm lashed the coast from the Keys to Jacksonville with winds and rain and was moving toward Georgia and Alabama.
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The
Keys
Jacksonville
Georgia
Panhandle
Alabama
Florida
Gainesville
Frances strengthens and threatens Florida as storm nears landfall
Next storm on Sunday Ivan becomes fifth hurricane in central Atlantic. Florida braces as Frances weakens from a Category 4 to tropical storm. Governors officials and President Bush coordinate response while 8,000 National Guard deployed. Evacuations reach 2.8 million in 40 counties and 108,000 in shelters.
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Ivan
Central Atlantic
United States
Jeb Bush
Tallahassee
West Palm Beach
Bush
National Guard
Palm Beach
Orange
Indian River
Frances
Florida
Sewall’s Point
Martin County
Russ Blackburn
Charley
Tampa
Gulf of Mexico
Florida Panhandle
Miami
Fort Lauderdale
Orlando
Panhandle
St. 7 Island
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Roanoke County
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National Association of Biology Teachers
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Motejl
Konigsmark
Nan
Teve
Tim Karcher
1St Cavalry Division
Neil Taufen
Taufen
Fort Sill
Okla
Kufa
Bahamas
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