Tornado and forest fire.

Weather : 16,367 dead and $45.2 billion in damage, what you can do about it.
A day in the life of John Dickson, garbage collector in Seattle.
Tragedy in Colebrook, New Hampshire – shooting of Dennis Joos, Scott Phillips, Lester Lord, Vickie Bunnell.
Dog day care (great article) : KETCH K-9 Educational Training Center of Hillsborough.
Cuba’s great pitcher Orlando Hernandez flees to America.
The Carousel and Red Grooms.
Manta Rays.
Roberto Arno, his deformity, and his incredible spirit in over-coming the handicap.
Two Page State Farm Insurance ad with Coach Eddie Robinson.
Letters to the Editor include letters from Fred J. Frank of Las Cruces, Amy L. Watt of New Cumberland, West Virginia, Maya Spier of Olympia, Washington.
Two page photo from Puerto Rico of Raul Santana knocked out in a riot.
Gruesome closeup of the bumper of the truck behind which James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death by racists Lawrence Russell Brewer, Shawn Allen Berry and John William King.
Photos of Antigona Tishukaj, her mother Lumnie and Rexhe Caca, Albania.
Photo of twister damage in Spencer, South Dakota, home toppled in mud slide in Laguna Niguel, California, much more weather-related carnage.
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good reading copy

Life Magazine August 1998 – Wild Weather
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