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...helicopter on Wednesday, hours passed before it was safe to ferry him past the snipers and across a putrid moat into the hospital building. With a full evacuation still several days away, "people came to me and said, 'Why haven't they taken care of us? Why did they forget us?'" The food supply was down to beans and a few raw vegetables; candy vending machines had long since been emptied. "One of the guys here has been trying to call FEMA, and all he gets is a busy signal or voice mail," Gupta said. The stress was so overwhelming...
Back in the days when Ida was sweet as apple cider, the reference was not to the sweet juice but to the gently fizzed hard stuff--about 6% to 8% alcohol, refreshing and delicious. That's right. Forget beer; from colonial times to the early 20th century, hard cider was the American buzz of choice. Thanks largely to the efforts of Judith and Terry Maloney, a woodsy, sixtysomething couple, cider has staged a comeback...
Hundreds of libraries across the nation turn over lists of recalcitrant borrowers to companies like Unique Management Services, an Indiana-based collection agency that specializes in libraries. Forget to return that book for more than 120 days, and even your credit rating can take a hit. A Boise, Idaho, family was denied a mortgage two weeks ago after a credit check turned up an unpaid library fine. Some libraries are pressing criminal charges. A paralegal in Massachusetts was arraigned last month on four counts of failing to return library materials, a misdemeanor. Says Peter Anderegg, the librarian who filed...
...FORGET THE "HAPLESS TOAD...
...lengths to which Cooper was willing to go to protect Rove as his source [of information that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA]?just as any great reporter would for any other source. Too often those in this country, who decry the "mainstream news media" as liberally biased, forget that the Founding Fathers wrote the First Amendment to protect our democracy, not to destroy it. By keeping Rove's identity confidential, Cooper, in the finest tradition of journalism, proved that freedom of the press protects all of us, regardless of race, religion or political affiliation. Jonathan Greene Los Angeles...