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...Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
Yolanda and Jan Meehan-Hoo evacuated Slidell, La., with their children and Yolanda's mother, who has Alzheimer's and diabetes, one day before the hurricane hit. They drove away from the storm for more than 28 hours, averaging 10 m.p.h. most of the way. The brakes of their gray Suzuki Esteem hatchback eventually gave out, so they rode the emergency brake. "I said, 'C'mon, baby, you gotta get us out of here,'" says Yolanda. "She names her cars. This one was Betsy," explains Jan, laughing and holding Yolanda's hand in the Attleboro kitchen...
...this world that consists mostly of war--and this war consists largely of the fog of war--Doctorow introduces a multitude of characters who live by their wits, reinvent themselves ceaselessly and sometimes die abruptly. Arly and Will are two reprobate Confederate soldiers who adopt different colors, blue or gray, as the rules of survival require. Pearl is a half-caste slave girl shrewdly contemplating the horizons of her new freedom while serving for a while in the disguise of a Union drummer boy. Her former mistress Mattie Jameson is now a grief-crazed Confederate widow swept along with Sherman...
...enough ... Regarding costs for design, engineering, quality control, production, work force and management, there are still gray areas with waste and room for improvement. The next step is value innovation, where we're trying to make improvements in design that raise quality and lower costs...
...arena normally used for concerts and basketball games was converted into the largest emergency care center in the state. White cloth partitions sectioned the gray concrete into an intensive care unit, pediatrics, a pharmacy, and other units normally found in a hospital. Caffeinated doctors stood along the sloping ramps of the arena, resting between buses of refugees fresh from the New Orleans Convention Center and other havens of last resort...