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...prepared to accept their genes too." I was one of the fortunate ones who was warned in advance. There are millions who do not get this chance. Pradeep B. Chinai Bombay I fell asleep at night after reading your fitness articles, and the next morning I bolted out of bed for a 30-min. walk. I had not done that for months. Thanks! Gail Kaplan Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. I have some svelte friends who could learn a lot from your article "Can You Be Fat & Healthy?" Unfortunately, they are all downtown drinking and chain smoking. Meanwhile, I am enjoying...
...power and phones were gone; authority was all but absent. Most of the people left to cope were least equipped: the ones whose Social Security checks were just about due, or those who made for the Greyhound station only to find it already closed, or those confined to bed or who used a wheelchair. "We're seeing people that we didn't know exist," declared Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael Brown in a moment of hideous accidental honesty. Rescue workers could hear people pounding on roofs from the inside, trapped in attics as the waters rose. The lucky...
Once the city was there, nestled into what was essentially a lake bed, no one expected New Orleans to move someplace safe. But there were other options. Governments could have built stronger, higher levees and shored up the disintegrating coastline. As it was, the levees, overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, were designed to handle storms as strong as Category 3, even though experts warned that worse storms were inevitable. "The Corps has been pushing for years for Category 5 protection," says retired Lieut. General Robert Flowers, past head of the Corps. "Decisions have been made to accept...
...that lasted days, followed by days and even weeks of fasting. It took her years to get help. She looked for a program in which others could identify with her issues of loss and aging. This summer she turned to San Diego's Puente de Vida, a private, six-bed facility that requires at minimum a 30-day stay, which costs $30,000. During her time there, Karen says, three of the six women were her age or older. "I didn't want to be with a lot of teeny-boppers who might look at me and think, 'What...
...October 2002, West, exhausted from hours spent in a recording studio, fell asleep behind the wheel of his Lexus and nearly died. "He called me from his hospital bed with his jaw wired shut and asked for a drum machine," says Dash. "That impressed me." Three weeks after the accident, with his jaw still shut, West went to a studio and mumbled Through the Wire, a song about the crash built on the accelerated chorus of Chaka Khan's Through the Fire. It was dramatic and funny ("I drink a Boost for breakfast, a Ensure for dizzert/ Somebody ordered pancakes...