| Harvey spins on |
| Catastrophic flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey could cause 30,000 Texans to ultimately need shelters, FEMA predicted Monday. Houston police said officers had rescued more than 2,000 people so far. The now-tropical storm was spinning near Port O'Connor, Texas, on Monday and was forecast to drift back into the Gulf of Mexico before making a second landfall, likely on Wednesday. Flooding around Houston could worsen, with up to 20 inches of more rain falling on places that already saw 30 inches. Houston's two major airports remained closed, canceling thousands of flights. Recovery efforts are expected to last years. |
| A temporary airport rises in the desert for Burning Man |
| One of Nevada's airports was built in a matter of days by Burning Man volunteers, who assembled a control tower and landing strip in the middle of an ancient dry lakebed. The annual Burning Man art orgy will draw 70,000 people to the Black Rock Desert for a week of half-naked revelry that defies labels . The airport will average as many as 800 takeoffs and landings a day. Flights help reduce vehicle traffic to the site, which brought brutal traffic to the area on Sunday. |
| Amazon vowed to slash prices at the store dubbed 'Whole Paycheck' – and it delivered |
| There's not (yet?) a Dash button for organic avocados, but Amazon's takeover of Whole Foods Market is already pretty sweet . The grocery chain long known as high quality/high cost now is selling items for less than a whole paycheck. Bananas, eggs, rotisserie chicken and apples were among items marked down Monday. But wait, there's more. A large sign at the front of one of the Manhattan stores said, "Farm Fresh/Pick of the season" to advertise a sale on the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot. Amazon Prime members, you get extra special treatment. Alexa, sign us up. |
| Police in tanks? Trump says yes, overturning Obama's ban |
| Armored vehicles and large-caliber weapons will again go from battlefields to America's streets after the Trump administration overturned a controversial ban aimed at halting police from adopting military-style responses. An Obama administration order banned the sale of some military equipment to police departments after local law enforcement showed paramilitary-like force against protesters in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014. The reversal, just weeks after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., lets police immediately again buy surplus military gear from the Defense Department — a move praised by police groups and questioned by civil rights advocates. |
| Java junkies just got some excellent news |
| Turns out that coffee habit is good for your health. Spanish researchers studied 20,000 participants to see what impact coffee would have on their health. The results — released during the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona — showed people who drank at least four cups of coffee daily had a 64% lower risk of death than those who never or almost never had a cup. Even people who drank an additional two cups of coffee a day saw their risk drop. Time to order up a Venti (that's a large for non-Starbucks visitors). |
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