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...because of the cyclone. But there has never been such a destructive storm in living memory in Burma. Nearly everyone ignored the government warning and went to sleep as usual in their flimsy shacks that night. By 9 p.m., delta residents realized this was no normal storm. Ei Phyu Aung, a 14-year-old girl, recalls her house suddenly floating away in what locals estimate was a twelve-foot wave. She slipped out a window and grabbed onto a coconut palm. By mid-morning the next day, the water had washed away her clothing but she held fast...
...together. The men are breadwinners (Kazuhito and his father Takeo manage a rice mill); the able women (Noriko and Kazuhito's mother and sister and grandmother) cook and clean while babysitting Kazuhito's mentally handicapped younger brother and nursing both his bed-bound grandfather and his great-grandmother Ei, the clan's 97-year-old matriarch. "Beyond age and gender," reflects Noriko, "here was the model of a true family, a genuine family...
...Lowell: Benton B. Bodamer, Georg A. Bongartz, Han-Chiao I. Chen, Julia C. Drisdell, Andrew G. Ei, Lindsay P. Jones, Laura P. Knoll, Kathy W. Lu, Shruti Ravikumar and Michael P. Tully...
...Undeniably, Waddell has strong feelings about her sewing. iI use a basic Kenmore sewing machine that has no name but has a sticker on it that says, eI love my dementia.i I have a Singer at home. It feels like driving a car. It has about 480 horsepower, like a Lexus. I could give you a tour if you want to. Oh yeah, itis a her.i Regarding the oppression of fabric she says, ithread is born free and lives free. If you hold up a piece of fabric it just takes the shape it should be.i...
...from J.Crew, theyid force you to go home. When I left, they were implementing the New Balance rule, forcing us to buy expensive silver tennis shoes. Just the other day, I went into the Harvard square store and I saw all the guys wearing the same shoes and thought, eI hate this place.ii...