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...forth at levels not seen since the Asian tsunami. Americans opened their wallets and corporations their coffers, sending water, blankets, cookies and toilet paper. Many companies are offering grants to encourage giving. Time Warner, for example, will match up to $1 million in employee contributions to the American Red Cross...
...INCROCIO MAZONI Some winemakers are hoping to cover their bases by launching hybrids of already-popular varieties. These aren't necessarily new. One of the most promising is the Italian Incrocio Manzoni (incrocio means "cross"). Created in the 1930s by vintner Luigi Manzoni, but not produced in any great quantities until recently, it's a cross between fruity Riesling Renano and fragrant Pinot Bianco. An elegant wine, with characteristic notes of nectarine and apple, Incrocio Manzoni goes well with delicate risottos and fish dishes. To buy a case, contact Veneto's Rechsteiner winery...
...which can be acquired for less than $35 a bottle. For more information, visit www.yunnanhong.com. INCROCIO MAZONI Some winemakers are hoping to cover their bases by launching hybrids of already-popular varieties. These aren't necessarily new. One of the most promising is the Italian Incrocio Manzoni (incrocio means cross). Created in the 1930s by vintner Luigi Manzoni, but not produced in any great quantities until recently, it's a cross between fruity Riesling Renano and fragrant Pinot Bianco. An elegant wine, with characteristic notes of nectarine and apple, Incrocio Manzoni goes well with delicate risottos and fish dishes...
Around the country, people watched the scene in growing horror, as babies and old people and diabetics and those worn out surviving the storm died on live television for all to see. Churches started assembling comfort kits; 500,000 hot meals a day are being prepared by Red Cross disaster volunteers. "I just had a gentleman walk in off the street and write a $10,000 check," said a Red Cross director in Massachusetts. She'd never seen him before; he had no family down there. He just said it seemed the right thing...
...next morning, with the storm less than 24 hours away, the team talked to federal health officials about the potential for disease from the rising waters. At midday Sunday, according to TIME's Cathy Booth Thomas, the L.S.U. team informed a roomful of disaster officialsfrom FEMA and the Red Cross to the military and National Guardthat they were looking at a "significant event" with waves washing over the levees in central New Orleans. By 8 p.m. Monday, the first bad news came into the Operations Center. Staff from a nursing home reported that water had been rising at the rate...