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...East, angry tides, as high as 8 ft. above normal, surged along Atlantic beaches from the Carolinas to New England, destroying boardwalks and hammering homes. In the West, the highest tides in 20 years briefly closed part of the Pacific Coast Highway. To some, last week the fierce and freakish weather at both ends of the country seemed more than a mere coincidence...
...beds with other victims while they awaited treatment for shock and burns. Perhaps another 3,000 refugees, displaced from their homes on the fringes of the affected 10-sq.-mi. area, were evacuated by army troops. All told, it was estimated that 20,000 lives were upended by the freakish disaster that was aptly, if ineloquently described by M. Peter McPherson, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as a "Ripley's Believe It or Not event...
...require adaptation not only in the schools and the marketplace but throughout society. The Los Angeles County court system now provides interpreters for 80 different languages from Albanian and Amharic to Turkish and Tongan. One judge estimates that nearly half his cases require an interpreter. Sometimes the results are freakish. A police officer testified that he had read a Chinese suspect his Miranda rights in Chinese, in the Tai- shan dialect. The suspect only understood Cantonese. The judge thereupon ruled out his confession...
Last week revived West's scene. Suddenly, there were two freakish disasters overseas, connected at first only by the fact that death was involved in each: thousands killed in a cyclone in Bangladesh, 38 by a flood of Liverpool fans at a soccer match in Belgium. It was not the casualty count alone that was stunning nor even, in the case of the soccer match, the display of what amounted to mass murder in the context of a game. What the world saw in Bangladesh and Belgium was nature out of control -- external nature in one place, human nature...
...show. On an assignment for Esquire, along with photos of all American scenes like the police academy and a Boy Scout meeting she included shots of brothers, morgues and seedy hotels. Later she photographed dwarfs and freaks, confronting them with the raw camera lens, trying to dig beneath their freakish appearance and get at their human core. More than anything else, she hoped to present freaks an normal people trapped in abnormal bodies...