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...moves on to some other preoccupation. The people in this region will need help for some time to come--and not just food, water and medicine. "They've lost everything. You'd be surprised--they need little things we don't even think about in our daily lives," says Gail Neudorf, deputy director of emergency and humanitarian relief for CARE USA. "Things like soap, washing powder, buckets, bottles for water so you have a clean container to keep water in, cooking utensils, sleeping mats, clothing, blankets, diapers, sanitary pads, matches, candles, lanterns, cooking fuel. In time, we'll look...
...begun pushing for bans on expiration dates and user fees for all the products, plus replacement if the cards are lost or stolen as well as clear avenues to get cash for unspent funds. "Until Congress acts, there's very little protection for users of bank- issued cards," says Gail Hillebrand, an attorney with Consumers Union. "If you receive a gift card, make sure you know what you're getting into...
...York Times as the show that might "save the sitcom." But all the plaudits may have convinced people only that the show was another critic's darling that would be too much work to watch. "People talk about it in such reverent terms," says Fox entertainment president Gail Berman. "I say it's just funny. Let's not make it sound like medicine...
...Turning, Winton presides as the deity of disappointment - from the opening lines of the first story, Big World, where two beachcombing mates graduate from high school to find "nothing really happens, not even summer itself," to the last pages of the concluding Defender, where Vic's born-again wife Gail is left feeling "strangely deflated." With Winton, that's middle age for you. And it's around this subject that his characters circle. Like the narrator of the best story, Aquifer, who drives to the city upon hearing about a body dredged from a swamp he lived near...
...Elsewhere, Winton can seem to tread water. Using Vic as a narrative thread for otherwise disparate stories, Damaged Goods and Reunion, in particular, feel padded out. And reading about the marital difficulties of Vic and Gail can be as interesting as a bout of unsuccessful whale watching, to which his characters are also prone. Otherwise, trimmed of its middle-aged spread, The Turning is as lissome as Winton's best prose...