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Subsequent floods and earthquakes left the parched Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley as a protective crust, preserving the skeletons of the dinosaurs.
The New York Times highlighted three prizes won by the New York Times . Eventually, all three papers got around to acknowledging that the Grand Forks Herald had won the top prize for its coverage of last year's North Dakota floods and fires.
Titania, queen of the fairies, has already seduced Theseus, duke of Athens, and the struggle between her and her mate, Oberon, for possession of an orphaned changeling boy has generated hurricanes, floods, and "contagious fogs."
Californian hurricanes, African drought, destruction of Pacific fish and seabird populations, floods in South America, etc. (For more weather hype, see Slate's "Assessment" of El Niño.)
Not a word in today's paper about the Chinese floods, presumably because they deemed a chatty feature on the Italians' obsession with cell phones to be more relevant to its readers.