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...houses," Minyard says, sitting on an overturned fishing skiff in the shadow of the Superdome. He stares down an empty street as two ambulances creep through brackish waters toward Tulane University Hospital and its morgue. Near him, five men in white haz-mat uniforms wait on dry ground to collect bodies. Minyard extends his hand by way of introduction to his city. "Tough place," he says...
...sense of foreboding about their own proud and beautiful city. Ever since 1906, when a massive earthquake along the San Andreas Fault killed thousands and left an estimated 225,000 people homeless, San Franciscans have lived with the knowledge that one day another cataclysmic temblor will rock the ground beneath their feet, toppling houses and apartment buildings, severing water and power lines and rendering roads and highways impassable...
...child, identifies as a Labour voter but she wants to be persuaded to change her vote this time. Key zeroes in on National's tax cuts and a reduction in the high effective marginal tax rates she faces as a part-time social services worker. Key finds common ground with her on the problems in the welfare sector. As well, Key knows that staying nuclear-free is of immense importance to women aged 25 to 45; he calms her fears. After she is gone, Key says "I think we'll get her. She'll definitely vote...
...loaf of bread? ... While no region has a monopoly on poverty, the South comes the closest. Virtually half of America's poor live in the 16 Southern and border states, an area that holds less than a third of the total U.S. population. Moreover, the South is the spawning ground for much of the poverty that scars the rest of the land: since 1940, some 4,000,000 Negroes and uncounted poor whites have left the South for what they hoped would be a more rewarding life in the cities of the North and West. Few have found it. --TIME...
George Lucas is again breaking ground. The billionaire director, famous for blockbusters like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, has built a new empire. It's the "ultimate digital studio," he says, an antidote to celluloid's costly chemical processing and vaunted studio system. The Letterman Digital Arts Center is a $350 million facility inside San Francisco's Presidio, a national park overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The idea is to advance production of digital films, games, special effects and animation--something Lucas has done for decades yet Hollywood hasn't quite caught on to. "We make films...