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...especially in the suburbs to the north and east, as sewage laps at the doors and windows of homes, hospitals and amusement parks. In the hardest-hit area, St. Bernard Parish, to the east, searchers navigated the floodwaters looking for submerged bodies, often coming up empty, then finding horror: of the 67 known dead there, 27 perished in one nursing home. In one hospital, a single doctor was found caring for 57 patients in 10 ft. of water. Eleven patients had died. "You don't need dogs or detection devices to find bodies," says sheriff Jack Stephens. "You can smell...
...Berlin Wall. The book is also about Seth: he recounts his student days in England, his 10 years studying economics at Stanford University, his decision to switch careers and write The Golden Gate (after reading Pushkin's poem Eugene Onegin). He is no passive narrator. He reacts with horror to the fate of Henny's family and friends in wartime Germany, as told - sometimes at numbing length - through her letters. Two Lives is thin on Seth's current life, though in person he is as voluble as Shanti must have been. Unmarried at 53, the author has a house...
...human relationships." Remaining neutral in a world where clan allegiances are paramount made for some of the hardest work of all. Connolly is frank in his assessment of his and Anderson's ability to remain objective as tribal frictions intensified and the harvest's prospects faltered. He confesses the horror the pair privately felt when they heard that the international coffee price looked set to rise - it didn't - and spoil their film's premise. "Robin and I both felt really bad about that for years," he says...
Around the country, people watched the scene in growing horror, as babies and old people and diabetics and those worn out surviving the storm died on live television for all to see. Churches started assembling comfort kits; 500,000 hot meals a day are being prepared by Red Cross disaster volunteers. "I just had a gentleman walk in off the street and write a $10,000 check," said a Red Cross director in Massachusetts. She'd never seen him before; he had no family down there. He just said it seemed the right thing...
Nearly 2 1/2 years since fighting erupted between African rebels and government-backed Arab militias in Sudan's western Darfur region, the horror continues. When TIME published a cover story last October on the unfolding genocide against Darfur's non-Arab Muslims, some 50,000 had died and 1.4 million had been forced from their homes. Since then, the war has claimed tens of thousands more; 2.4 million are now displaced...