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...thousands of soldiers, marines, pilots and federal police on Oct. 29, two days before the most damaging flooding hit. When the riverbanks finally burst, inundating some 70% of the city on Oct. 31, there were more than 60 helicopters buzzing through the skies carrying out nonstop rescue and relief missions. Calderon and half his cabinet then touched down in Villahermosa three times in five days, giving televised updates on everything from how to use satellite phones in shelters to the drop points of millions of bottles of water. "The reaction has been very impressive. If there were not such...
...some degree, this lack of intellectualism was a relief: It meant that I didn’t have to worry so much about whether people considered me an intellectual powerhouse, because they weren’t intellectual powerhouses either. It was a shame so few of them read and so few of them cared about the happenings of the world, but at least I felt less guilty when I spent more time freshman year surfing Facebook than thinking about art or culture or politics...
...that it made more sense for women's breasts to be suspended from above than cantilevered from beneath. That is, she invented bra straps. So instead of walking around wearing the lingerie equivalent of the London Bridge, women could slide themselves into a Golden Gate. This was a huge relief--as anyone who has worn a strapless bra can tell you--because the London Bridge pretty much always falls down...
...friends of Wilson (Chuck) Lucom, who died last year at 88, the eccentric U.S. millionaire left as much as $50 million in his will for poor children's charities in Panama. It's the largest private gift ever made here. The will doesn't single out which relief organizations will be recipients. But, as the director of a charity that may benefit says, it could have a "tremendous impact on our ability to save these children...
...every single one of which Warren keeps, he has compiled four books. According to Warren, his project works for several reasons. “I think we all keep secrets,” he said. Warren added that sending a secret on a postcard can bring a sense of relief. “Sometimes when we think we’re keeping a secret, that secret is keeping us.” According to Warren, reading the secrets of others can bring relief when they remind us of our own. “There is one secret that has been...