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...Regattas at this time of year are challenging because sometimes the breezes are pretty light,” Devlin said. “It’s a particular skill and we’ve gotten very good...
...Anxiety and exhaustion are evolving quickly into impatience and anger. New Orleans community leaders living inside the complex, helped by an advocacy network of Houston churches and schools, has gotten some 4,000 evacuees to sign a petition demanding immediate financial assistance; a long-term recovery package; streamlined procedures for obtaining services, and, smoother transition to homes away from mass shelters. Houston officials said that under a plan devised by local, county and federal housing authorities in conjunction with New Orleans government officials and the Houston Apartment Association, they expect to have moved the vast majority of evacuees...
...rifle for almost a week until the National Guard arrived. My sister-in-law found two pieces of her great-grandmother's china. She set them on the slab of their house while she walked to my house to get a drink of water. When she returned looters had gotten them. Granted, my rifle was old, rusty and useless if a looter got too close, but from a distance I appeared lethal. A group of National Guardsmen tried to talk it away from me late last week, and I told them they could have it when they could...
...celebrate. Dianne Schwartz, 57, and her second husband, David, broke tradition last Christmas by going to Paris and leaving her four and his two grown kids to figure out how to celebrate without Mom and Dad. "I've always done the whole Christmas thing," Dianne says, "but it's gotten harder with a blended family and most of our kids, ranging in age from 28 to 37, not living near us in Nashville." When the couple unveiled their plans, not every child was totally happy. Her 33-year-old daughter asked, "How can you desert us?" But it worked...
...kidney transplant. Very soon his body is going to go into rejection." Henderson went in with New Orleans police, and when people saw him in scrubs, they surged at him from every side. He tried to tend the sickest and the babies first. "The crowds here have gotten a bad rap. There are not many human beings you could cram into a building with 10,000 others, in 105 heat, that wouldn't get just a little pissed off." He tried to get them settled and asked them to show him the sickest. "And they lead...