Hurricane Rick hits Mexican coast causing mass evacuations
Hurricane Rick hammered fishing villages and tourist resorts along Oaxaca and the coast near Huatulco Puerto Escondido and Puerto Angel before weakening inland. Thousands fled as high seas and 75 mph winds closed ports and roads, with bridges damaged and power outages reported. No deaths or injuries were confirmed.
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Mexico
Rick
Huatulco
Puerto Escondido
Puerto Angel
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Acapulco
Tuxtla Gutierrez
Oaxaca
Hector Anuar Masud
Roxanne
Oaxaca City
Mexico City
Lost Mary Shelley children story found in Italy
A 39 page unpublished Mary Shelley tale titled Maurice, or the Fisher's Cat was discovered in Tuscany by Cristina and Andrea Dazzi. The Times reports the manuscript, authenticated by two experts, matches a journal reference from 1820 and features a boy who flees his parents, is taken in by a fisherman, and set in southwest England.
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London
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Italy
Times of London
Cristina Dazzi
Andrea
Tuscany Hills
Dazzi
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lady Mountcashell
the Times
Starship Troopers and Bean Lead Weekend Box Office
Starship Troopers earns about 22 million and Bean 13 million as the top two films. I Know What You Did Last Summer remains strong at 6.6 million. Mad City debuts around 4.7 million. The weekend totals reflect strong teen audience pull despite R rating for Starship Troopers.
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OS Angeles
Bugs
Starship Troopers
Bean
Dustin Hoffman
John Travolta
Robert Bucksbaum
Reel Source Inc
Earth
Bucksbaum
U.S
Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc
Art Rockwell
Yeager Capital Markets
Hoffman
Travolta
North America
Tibet
First Lady's plane forced back on Asia trip
Hillary Clinton's Air Force One developed engine trouble ten minutes after takeoff from Andrews. The Boeing 707 returned, dumping fuel, with no injuries. Repairs delayed the eight country tour to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Russia. President Clinton was informed. visit aims to promote human rights and economic development.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Shannon
Ireland
Chesapeake Bay
Almaty
Kazakhstan
Andrews
Barry Torv
Clinton
Soviet Union
Moscow
Boris Yeltsin
China
Poland
China and Russia seek strategic partnership not alliance
Presidents Jiang Zemin and Boris Yeltsin champion a strategic partnership of closer economic and political ties while not reviving 1950s alliance. They settled a border dispute, signed trade and tiger protection pacts, and aimed for $20 billion annual trade by 2000, amid efforts to counterbalance U.S. influence.
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China
Russia
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Boris Yeltsin
Jiang
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U.S
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Moscow
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Boris Nemtsov
Li Lanqing
Foreign Ministry
Tang Guoqiang
Weather woes deepen SE Asia drought and fires
El Nino drought delays monsoons needed to quell Southeast Asia wildfires blanketing the region in smoke. Environmentalists warn rains could trigger acid rain, floods and erosion. Fires have burned 74,000 acres on Sumatra as haze reaches Australia. smoke stretches across Thailand to Darwin.
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Indonesia
Southeast Asia
Ho Wai Chi
Greenpeace Environmentalist Group
Thailand
Australia
Azwar Anas
Sumatra
Darwin
Graeme King
Singapore
Jakarta
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Washington
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Qian Qichen
Qian
Bill Palmer
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