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...back home to the Quad after a late night at the Kong. Instead, book it over to Lamont, your new home away from home. A few tips for a successful night: 1. Subtlety is key. Pad your overcoat with a lightweight fleece blanket, because your fluffy Little Mermaid sleeping bag and pillow may attract some unwanted attention. 2. Bring a high-quality eye mask. The bright lights in Lamont are fantastic for studying, but they’re less than conducive to getting some shuteye. Check out sharperimage.com for their “Heat-Sensitive Foam Sleep Mask...
...walk with Tawoos and his friend Altaf up a steep goat track toward Kamal Kote. They are carrying a sack of flour, 20 packets of biscuits, three loaves of bread, three eggplants, one cabbage, some tea, a bag of sugar, a box of candles and a few loose cigarettes. They are the relief effort. "I buried 27 people yesterday," says Tawoos. He is pale with lack of sleep and bitterness, and has to take frequent rests. He tells us there are 317 dead in Kamal Kote, a village of perhaps 1,000. His head is spinning with...
Inside the ExxonMobil refinery offices he commandeered after Hurricane Katrina, where temporary telephone wires dangle from the ceiling alongside sticky yellow flytraps dotted with dead flies and mosquitoes, Henry (Junior) Rodriguez is deliberating on the future of devastated St. Bernard Parish, east of New Orleans. As he downs a bag of chocolates that constitutes dinner, his considerable paunch on display, the parish president rehearses his upcoming appeal to Congress: with no taxpayers and no businesses, St. Bernard has money for just one month's payroll. Rodriguez wants help from Washington--or else. "Do people realize we produce...
...their homes," says councilwoman Judy Hoffmeister, shaking her head as she watches a friend, Calvin Melerine, 66, shovel mud from his two-story home and ditch one piece of furniture after another. "They come in with U-Hauls, and they're lucky if they leave with a garbage bag full," she says. At her house around the block, Hoffmeister plans to rescue some bronzed baby shoes, but she turns away in tears at the door after realizing someone has already rummaged through her ruins. "There's nothing left to save here," she says. Her family, whose members lived within...
With gas prices so high, cut-rate fueling stops have become a seasonal draw; bedandbreakfast.com and bbonline.com list fall gas promotions and reduced rates, such as 20% "gas relief" discounts or gas cards at inns nationwide. You can earn a gallon of gas for every bag of leaves collected from the lawn at the Hummingbird Inn in Goshen, Va. (up to a five-bag limit). The Kingsley House Bed & Breakfast in Fennville, Mich., is offering 2 gal. of gas (6 gal. maximum) for every gallon of apple cider or half bushel of apples you purchase at nearby Crane's apple...