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Newsmakers Tropical storm hits coastal Carolinas Tropical Storm Chris, which sprang to life from a tropical depression off Florida, raced toward the South Carolina coast Sunday bringing heavy showers, blustery winds and causing'scattered power problems. Tropical storm warnings were posted from Savannah, Ga., to Cape Hatteras, N.C., and the storm strengthened somewhat as it approached South Carolina. At noon, the third named storm of the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and was located near the coast about midway between Charleston and Savannah, a National Hurricane Center advisory said. The storm was moving north at 20 mph. The center of the storm's circulation was expected to cross the coast later Sunday and then track across the Midlands in the center of the state, forecasters said. "It's such a weak storm. There's no eye or anything like that," said forecaster John Townsend of the National Weather Service Office in Charleston. Italian jets collide, 31 believed dead RAMSTEIN, West Germany ? Three Italian air force jets collided and crashed during an air show at a U.S. military base Sunday, and a state government official said up to 31 people were feared dead. (Cable News Network reported last night that 34 were dead.) A police spokesman in nearby Kaiserslautern said at least 100 people were injured at Ramstein Air Base, some of them seriously. One of the airplanes plowed into the crowd on the ground, eyewitnesses said. Rhineland-Palatinate state government spokesman Hennes Schreiner said state governor Bernhard Vogel immediately headed to the base 60 miles southwest of Frankfurt to help supervise joint German-American rescue efforts. Base spokesman Doug Moore said the dead included the three pilots, and "those dead on the ground are a mix of civilian and military." Most divorced women don't remarry NEW YORK ? About 40 percent of women who separated recently while in their 30s will never remarry, nor will about 70 percent of women who separated when older than 40, a new study projects. And while 72 percent of recently separated women will eventually go to the altar again, half will still be single seven years after the split, the projections suggest. The estimates, for women who separated in the early 1980s, emphasize that separation can mean long periods of single life and economic hardship for some women and their children, researchers said. "For many of the children, it's the rest of their childhood years," said study co-author Larry Bumpass. "For many of these women, it's for the rest of their lives." Bumpass, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, developed the projections with colleagues James Sweet and Teresa Castro. He spoke in a telephone interview before presenting the study Sunday in Atlanta at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Denver lets graffiti artists paint away DENVER ? Hoping to curb the spread of graffiti, the city of Denver has brought 60 to 70 graffiti artists into a program that gives them artistic tips and a sanctioned place to display their spray-painting skills. The construction walkway at the new Denver convention center will be the canvas for participating "taggers," known for their stylized signatures, and "writers," who specialize in flashy murals. "Graffiti started in prehistoric days (with cave writings). . . but it didn't really become vandalism until someone owned the walls," says Amy Lingg, communications director for the Denver Department of Public Works. Lingg, who got her artistic training at the Colorado Institute of Art, is supervising the city's antk*g?rffiti program. Taggers and writers have emerged from underground to work on ' pieces" (short for masterpieces) in a makeshift studio at a Public Works facility. 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