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...media office in central Gaza. Thickset, bearded men lean against the walls, watchfully. The only furniture in the otherwise empty suite is a brand new desk, behind which sits Sami Abu Zuhry, a trim 38-year-old history Professor recently named Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip. Abu Zuhry rejects suggestions that Hamas wants to take over Gaza now the Israelis are gone. "We don't want control," he says. "We want elections...
...south Plaquemines Parish, a sinuous ribbon of land between the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, not only were all the towns lost to Katrina's fury, but nature itself seems mortally wounded as well. The 30-mile strip of houses, farms and schools has been transformed into a sump filled with fetid water. Groves of orange trees lie half submerged near Triumph. In Empire, almost 1 million gallons of oil have broken out of a giant Chevron storage tank, coating the levees and seeping into the marshland. A herd of cows staggers ankle deep through greasy waters...
Others propose a general withdrawal from the disappearing wetlands and refortification behind more easily defensible lines, like Israeli settlers withdrawing from the Gaza Strip. There are simply too many precarious outposts to build walls around them all, they say. Better to build one huge hurricane levee across southern Louisiana and leave those who choose to stay outside the floodgates to look after themselves...
...sits on the glass-strewn pavement outside the gutted Raja restaurant, playing a blurry video clip of smoke and bloodied faces on his mobile phone. The Balinese vendor was buying a soda just down the street when a bomb hit the three-story building in Bali's popular tourist strip of Kuta. In a quivering voice, Helsan describes how he helped carry the wounded to taxis so they could be rushed to hospital. "There were people everywhere with bloodied faces," he says. "They were afraid of another bomb and were screaming and running." He shakes his head, repeating over...
...conscious at the time, but the parallels between my reinvention in high school after Betty rejected me and the true reinvention of my life are remarkable. My comic strip was just like the magazine--an idealized story of my life, with myself at center stage. I reinvented myself as this other person and used the magazine as the promotional tool to accomplish that. Instead of the Puritan world that my folks accepted and, from my perspective, paid the price for, I created a world for myself...