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...just parted with her sister again. "Everybody hugging, crying." She winces. "Sad." On the tarmac, planes are ready to scatter families to Dubai, to London, to Rome, to Hong Kong. Women sit in window seats, bracing themselves for another year, or another three years. As night falls, they watch Manila spread out beneath them. The lights of their houses are on, but the lights of their homes are already gone...
...paper, chose a wholly original second act. They started a school. The Blue School, as it's known, opened its doors in September to 61 New York City kids kindergarten age or younger. It plans to offer first grade next year and grow all the way to fifth grade. (Watch TIME's Blue School video...
...Watch TIME's Blue School video here...
...military activity and civilian casualties--and the blowback empowers the extremists. Al-Shabaab (Arabic for Youth) now controls much of the south of the country, in the manner of the Taliban: on Oct. 27, 1,000 spectators gathered at a sports stadium in the port of Kismayo to watch al-Shabaab stone to death a 13-year-old girl, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow. Amnesty International says al-Shabaab arrested her and convicted her of adultery after she complained she had been gang-raped...
...Hall come 10 a.m. You can already play a game to see if you know how to survive an earthquake. (I scored only 9 out of 14 on the first try, but now I am totally rocking an 11.) You can download audio to accompany the drill. You can watch a YouTube video about what would happen to California in such a quake. And, starting at 10:02 a.m. on Thursday, you can play a sprawling, multiplayer collaboration game called After Shock to see what happens on the other side...