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...horrors began the first day when the staff heard that the levees had been breached. "People got really scared and thought they were going to drown," says Gibson, 44, a nursing administrator. "The staff was getting calls from members of their families who were stuck in attics as the water was rising." Some wanted to leave any way possible--and take their tiny charges with them. Gibson went from group to group, telling them that they would get out "when it is safe." But she too was worrying--about her husband and two children, whom she had not heard from...
...bridge to come down because I was getting tired, but again, no one moved." Except for Heru (Jack) Kurniawan, 27, who saw Erwin struggling to get back to the riverbank. "It was obvious that someone had to do something or both of them would drown," he says. Handing his cell phone to a friend, Jack waded in and, "trying to avoid the dead bodies," paddled over to Erwin and the girl. When he lifted her onto his shoulder, she screamed in pain, and the men realized her foot was caught in a fishing net. It seemed to take an eternity...
...Facts: There’s a fast track from Cambridge, Mass. to Cambridge, U.K. Six scholarships send Harvard students to different colleges at the University of Cambridge for advanced study. So go long and drown the Type-A personalities that got you there in pints of bitter...
First, people explain that they already give to charity, or promise that they will when they graduate and start earning income. That’s great, but it does not resolve the problem. Let’s say that, right before seeing the drowning child, you had just donated $10,000 to save dying children in South Asia. Would you then just let the child drown right in front of you? If not—that is, if saving the life of a random child were still worth more than $500 to you—why didn?...
...video art pieces will also have audio portions, which will be projected by a sound system with a projection range of six- to eight-feet. Bryan L. Morrissey, an engineer with Brown Innovations, the Boston company that developed the system, said that background noise should drown out the sound for pedestrians walking outside of the radius. “The microphone listens to ambient noise then sets the volume of the speaker at an appropriate level, so it can be heard but is not overwhelming,” said Morrissey. Each month, there will be 12 video art pieces rotating...