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...important take-home message: survivors of a major emergency will probably need to fend for themselves for the first few days after calamity strikes. The goal is to get as many San Franciscans as possible to assemble--and keep current--a basic emergency kit, including a flashlight, a transistor radio, spare batteries, canned goods and, above all, enough water to last at least three days. "If Hurricane Katrina didn't prove it to you, I don't know what will," says Newsom. "When disaster strikes, we're all going to be on our own for a minimum of 72 hours...
...more than six times her monthly salary as a midwife. The financial burden?which she has covered in part by selling all of her gold jewelry, aside from her wedding ring?will only increase as the poll nears. The election commission grants each candidate airtime at local radio stations?a female candidate's best bet for getting her name out?but production of a good campaign commercial is costly. Still, Mohammadi and her husband believe the sacrifice is worth it. "This jewelry is nothing," her husband told her. "It is of no value compared to helping your country...
...sounds great that nobody should be treated differently," says writer Oscar Kightley of the Brash prescription. "But (in the past year) I'm also hearing a lot more things, racist stuff, on the street from ordinary people. That talk used to be confined to extremists on talkback radio." Kightley, of Samoan heritage, is one of the creators of bro'Town, a satirical animated sitcom set in Auckland. The show's characters are mainly Pacific Islanders and Maori - who together make up 22% of the population and growing. "As any parent says, you're only as happy as your saddest child...
...days after Hurricane Katrina trashed the Gulf Coast, a radio talk-show host in Los Angeles asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice if it was true that President Bush does not care about black people. (She said no.) A man standing in the ruins in Gulfport, Miss., told the Vice President, "Go f___ yourself." (He smiled.) And the mayor of New Orleans secretly decamped for much of the week to Dallas to install his family there, refusing most media interviews, although the bodies had only begun to be counted in his drowned city. Even as soldiers swarmed into the Gulf...
...prolific Boyle (author of 10 novels and six previous short-story collections) returns to mercilessly test his characters' physical and emotional endurance. Lester, a young bartender, experiences "wrecks both literal and figurative, replete with flames, blood, crushed metal and broken hearts." He isn't alone. In other stories, a radio DJ must survive 12 days without sleep for a p.r. promotion and a couple is trapped in a crotch-high snowdrift on a back mountain road. The gratification comes as each, captured in Boyle's calculating and caustic prose, fights his or her way out of the wreckage. --By Rebecca...