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...even after last week's resignation of FEMA director Michael Brown, it may be a long time before the agency stops being politicians' favorite punching bag. No wonder the challenge of spending all that money seems to hold no joy for those grinding away at FEMA's National Response Coordination Center located in a sad annex behind a southwest Washington Holiday Inn. "The size of it is daunting. The speed with which it needs to be delivered is very difficult," says Bob Spaulding, project manager for Fluor Corp., one of the companies awarded $100 million to help provide temporary housing...
...junkie since I was 12," says Sharrock. But over the years she got tired of products that barely changed from season to season, and she eventually drifted away. Bigelow has brought her back. "They have the stuff here that the fashion magazines talk about," says Sharrock, whose shopping bag is stocked with tiny glass jars of Frederic Fekkai protein conditioner and hair mask. And then she says the thing that must make Fiske's ears tingle: "I'm trading up." --With reporting by Christopher Maag/Columbus
...quietly. "Why are they doing this?" demands Mario Holly, 32, who refused to leave behind his pit bull Irene until Guardsmen relented and took both aboard their huge halftrack truck. "I had enough food. I had enough water. I'm straight [meaning O.K.]," he says, dragging along a plastic bag of belongings. Robert Sanford, 62 and retired, sits on his porch in Uptown, drinking a soda and vowing to defy the evacuation order. "I don't need much," he says. "I got 12 gallons of water in the house. I got those Army meals they handing out--pork and beans...
...words, like Terry Edwards, 47, a veteran funeral director from Eastland, Texas. Although he has volunteered for 11 disasters' aftermaths, including cleaning up the Columbia shuttle crash, he says New Orleans is the worst. In teams of two, Edwards and his comrades open each body bag, inventory the contents, decontaminate for chemical waste, then assess the victim for gunshot wounds or a shattered skull that might indicate murder, not accidental death. Each victim is photographed, with attention given to such identifiers as long-healed scars, birthmarks and tattoos. Fingerprinting and dental imaging follow before the forensic specialists collect samples...
...hilltop and surrounded by the rolling clay slopes of the Crete Senesi, truffles are truly a village affair: there are 50 truffle hunters out of a population of 350, according to Mayor Michele Boscagli. From September to December they hunt for the delicacy, feast on a portion of their bag, and sell the rest to local merchants and restaurants. San Giovanni d'Asso holds an annual Truffle Festival in November. "It's not run by merchants," says Boscagli. "Our festival is completely managed by the truffle hunters...