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H AVE YOUR GROUP'S picture taken
for Texas A&M's 2005 Aggieland
yearbook. Contracts are due beginning
Friday. Follow these easy steps: (1)
Download a contract from http://
aggieland.tamu.edu or pick one up
in room 004 Reed McDonald. (2) Fill
out your contract and return it with
payment to room 015 Reed McDonald.
Space is limited. Questions? Call 845-
2682 for details.
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We need your graduation portrait for the 2005 Aggieland yearbook.
Graduation portraits for Texas A&M University's 2005 Aggieland yearbook will be
taken Monday through Friday, Sept. 13-24, 2004, in MSC Room 027. Hours are
9 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day. There is no sitting fee required to be photographed for
the yearbook.
To make your appointment, go to www.thorntonstudio.com. Go to Scheduling,
then click New User, and complete with Registration Password: tarn
Or schedule by calling Thornton Studio at 1-800-883-9449, or see the
photographer beginning Sept. 13.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Thousands of residents
desperate to return home after fleeing Hurricane
Frances ignored Florida’s plea to stay put Tuesday,
jamming highways, delaying emergency workers
and causing tempers to flare in the sticky heat.
One man was so desperate for ice that he shot
the lock off a freezer. Fights broke out in some
places. Drivers waited for hours to Fill up their
gas tanks. More than 1,000 cars coiled around
several blocks in Stuart as a distribution center
watched over by National Guardsmen offered
water, ice and ready-to-eat meals.
“Everyone’s hot, everyone’s sweating so much
at night that nobody can sleep. Everyone’s tossing
and turning. The kids keep crying. I can’t take no
more of this. Nobody can take this,” said Maria
Sanchez, 26, who waited more than 90 minutes
with her four children to get supplies in Stuart,
about 35 miles north of West Palm Beach.
While many began removing debris, clear
ing downed trees and mopping up the water in
their homes, weary Floridians looked over their
shoulder at another hurricane several days away
in the Atlantic. Ivan could become the third hur
ricane to hit the state this year, though it was too
soon to determine the storm’s exact path.
“It almost seems like we’ve got a kick me’
sign on the state here,” said Max Mayfield, direc
tor of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
As many Floridians went home for the first
time since Frances battered the state Sunday,
traffic on parts of Interstate 95, the major high
way along the Atlantic coast, was double the
usual levels. Federal Emergency Management
Agency workers trying to reach Martin County
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on the southeast coast got stuck
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take up to a week to restore pow
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was bad news with high humidity and ten
lures hovering around 90 degrees.
“None of the stores have anything the
need. There is no bread to be found, no
water, fm lucky I got gas this morning,
Serafina Ferreira at a relief site in West
Beach, where lines stretched for miles.
St. Lucie County administrator Doug Am
said, “We had some fights break out alrea
day. We are asking the public to please bef
and neighborly. We are all in this together.'
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least 300 arrests, estimatir
were for violating curfew.
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early Sunday with winds of
than 13 inches of rain, ripping off roofs and;'■pens,”}
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southwest Florida last month and caused an:
mated S6.8 billion in insured damage.
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