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Farmer brought his laundry basket full of coffee and canned milk back to his Napoleon Avenue home, which had no form of communication except a land telephone. The line would determine his family’s survival when his aunt called, telling them that floodwaters were fast rising on the northern side of the city. Farmer drove out at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Storm, An Uncertain Calm | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...blew out, Molere grabbed his chihuahua Rocky, was swept from his roof, and swam and rode the current for two hours. He saved the dog but later found that his 80-year-old mother, in another house and on a respirator, had refused to leave. "I hope she went fast," he says. He knows many who have lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Ahead | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

...fallout may be fast, especially as Katrina's effects kick in. Delta Air Lines--the nation's third largest airline and AirTran's most powerful rival--may soon declare bankruptcy and cut back flights. Meanwhile, the labor strike at Northwest Airlines, the country's fourth biggest carrier, could drive it over the financial edge too. That would put a total of 5 out of 12 major airlines in bankruptcy (United, US Airways and ATA are already there). The same fate may await Independence Air, a small Virginia-based start-up that has been instrumental in driving fares down over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The Survivor Airline | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

Kids get bigger fast, and now so can their beds and chairs. Increasingly, manufacturers are creating shape-shifting furniture that keeps pace with your shape-shifting child. --By Lisa McLaughlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home: Furniture That Grows With You | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

...violations that had characterized Egyptian elections in the past. ?At some places, I saw (NDP members) give voters 10 pounds ($1.75) with my own eyes,? he told TIME. In Helwan, supporters of two opposition parties said officials at an NDP office gave 20 Egyptian pounds ($3.50) and a fast-food sandwich to young men in exchange for their agreement to go to polling stations and vote for Mubarak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt?s Vote: Flawed, but Promising | 9/8/2005 | See Source »

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