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...bathroom during Hurricane Alicia in 1983. When the eye passed over, we ran outside to a spooky, greenish world with absolutely no sound. After the terrifying noise of the hurricane, it was distinctly odd. The lawn was covered with dead seagulls and tree branches. One of the giant live oak trees in our front yard had toppled, missing the house by inches. We knew the storm was starting again when we heard the wind. But Alicia was only a Category 3 storm. When Rita was upgraded to a Cat 5 this morning, everyone decided to abandon ship...
...students, accompanied by two faculty members and several graduate students, hiked along the main crater of Kilauea, the world’s most active volcano, visited a geothermal power plant, toured the giant telescopes on Mauna Kea, and surveyed two black sand beaches...
...then with his 1998 HBO series, From the Earth to the Moon. Now Hanks is working the space beat again, preparing for this month's release of Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, co-produced by IMAX and Hanks' own production company, Playtone. A 3-D, 70-mm, giant-screen spectacle that Hanks co-wrote and narrates, the movie re-creates what it's like to travel to the moon, bound around on the surface and head back home. Conventional movies have given viewers a sense of this before. The IMAX production, Hanks hopes, will swallow them up whole...
Despite the group's past blunders, charity watchdogs insist the $3 billion giant, mandated by Congress to work with federal agencies to aid victims of natural disasters, has risen to Katrina's various challenges. "The Red Cross has turned over a new leaf,"says Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy. Fund raising has obviously not been a problem. The organization teamed with Google, MSN and Yahoo! to channel money through their websites--and nearly half its Katrina funds arrived via the Internet. Though not as forthcoming with details of its spending as critics would like...
...India territory. A handful of families controlled India's major newspapers, and a gentleman's agreement largely kept them off each other's turf. Not anymore. In Bombay, a new English newspaper called DNA (as in Daily News and Analysis) has launched an advertising blitz, buying dozens of giant billboards around the city, as it prepares to take on the Times of India. At the same time, the Times launched a new tabloid, the Mumbai Mirror. To thicken the melee, the Hindustan Times, a leading New Delhi paper, also entered the fray. Bombay is currently experiencing India's most febrile...