Welfare overhaul squeezes states as safety net shifts
The AP reports Clinton signs welfare reform ending Aid to Families With Dependent Children. States face new block grants, five year lifetime limits, work requirements, and cuts to food stamps. Forty three states have begun waivers. others wait for Washington. Impacts depend on state resources, priorities, and plans as they adapt to the new system.
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America
Clinton
Bering
Linda Wolf
American Public Welfare Association
Washington
Jack Tweedie
National Conference of State Legislatures
Michael Kharfen
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
West Coast power outage blamed on overuse
A severe summer outage left more than 4 million customers across nine Western states without power after the Pacific Intertie failed amid record heat. Officials traced the cause to overuse and grid stress, with Disneyland rides stalled and stores losing sales. Recovery stretched into Sunday as transit lights and commerce reels from cascading outages.
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San Francisco
West
Pacific Intertie
British Columbia
Mexico
Pacific Gas and Electric Co
Lyle LaFever
Laf
Oregon
California
Texas
Disneyland
Joe Aguirre
Las Vegas
San Diego
Worst TV hair and sexiest pair in 1990s glare
AP reports Tori Spelling tops a worst hairdo poll on TV while Julia Louis-Dreyfus is named best hair. George Clooney and Teri Hatcher are voted the sexiest TV couple. London tabloid coverage follows Mandy Allwood claiming an eight-baby plan with publicist Max Clifford.
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New York
Tori Spelling
TV Guide
Marge Simpson
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
George Clooney
Teri Hatcher
Hatcher
Lois Lane
Superman
London
Mandy Allwood
Britain
Ms Allwood
News of the World
Max Clifford
O.J. Simpson
Oxford
All the Aces
Ms. Allwood
Brush fires near controlled in Utah blaze battle
Lightning sparked fires scorched 140000 acres of desert brush in Utah. More than 1600 firefighters have fought two fires since the month’s start, with about 760 ready for a break as the big blaze, about 124000 acres, burned sagebrush and scrubs 85 miles SW of Salt Lake City. No structures or livestock were lost on federally owned land.
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Richfield
Utah
Salt Lake City
Lost boy found after swamp ordeal near Eglin Air Force Base
A 12-year-old autistic boy, Taylor Touchstone, wandered four nights in swamp terrain near Eglin AFB, hospitalized in good condition. A boater found him in East Bay River at 7:30 a.m., about 14 miles from where he vanished Wednesday afternoon.
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Fort Walton Beach
Fla
Army Rangers
Taylor Touchstone
Taylor
East Bay River
Eglin Air Force Base
Florida Panhandle
Dole Convention Opens With Aims To Hold Senate Majority
The Republican convention featured former Presidents George Bush and Gerald Ford, Colin Powell, and Nancy Reagan while signaling efforts to retain control of Congress. The platform urged four cabinet eliminations and opposed birthright citizenship for illegals, with a conservative stance on abortion and affirmative action. Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot critiqued the system, while Dole sought unity and readied a major fundraising push of about 74 million dollars.
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Gerald Ford
Colin Powell
Nancy Reagan
Ronald Reagan
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House
GOP
Congress
California
Pete
America
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Hillary
Chelsea
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Pat Buchanan
Buchanan
Missing section of plane found
A missing TWA 800 cargo bin was hauled ashore in East Moriches New York showing little burn damage, challenging the bomb in the front hold theory. FBI official Kallstrom notes three main theories remain. Navy divers recovered a third engine as investigators press to recover the fourth and reassemble the 747.
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East Moriches
N.Y
TWA
James Kallstrom
FBI
Kallstrom
Navy
Ocean Floor
National Transportation Safety Board
Robert Francis
Field 3
Kennedy Airport
Francis
Calverton
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Shams Makhami
San Francisco International Airport
San Mateo County
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Edwards Cinema
Los Angeles
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Trilby Lundberg
Bob Dole
Ross Perot
Colorado
Richard Lamm
Perot
Reform Party
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Frederick
Robernsfisher
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Sinlee
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