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...estimate calculated for TIME by the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina. But Americans have a tendency to be die-hard optimists, literally. It is part of what makes the country great--and vincible. "There are four stages of denial," says Eric Holdeman, director of emergency management for Seattle's King County, which faces a significant earthquake threat. "One is, it won't happen. Two is, if it does happen, it won't happen to me. Three: if it does happen to me, it won't be that bad. And four: if it happens...
...Pandemic Flu Seattle's King County could be struck at any time by an earthquake, tsunami or the eruption of nearby Mount Rainier. But the thing that has Eric Holdeman, director of the county's office of emergency management, really worried is the threat of a pandemic flu. "We expect to need 57,000 hospital beds," says Holdeman of a worst-case scenario. "We have 3,500. There's not enough ventilators, there's no vaccine, there's not enough Tamiflu...
...cotton Sunday best, watched intently while an old lady threw object after object into the flames-bottles to bubble when a thief is in the garden, carved wooden bowls from which to feed the gods, wanga bags to protect the traveler, love charms, colored beads, mysterious, headless dolls. Granny Holdeman was having another "burning." Granny's ceremonial burning of voodoo charms and fetishes is a potent symbol in a land where dark gods and hungry spirits sometimes seem more at home than the people themselves. Some eight years ago, when she went to Haiti, the drums throbbed often...
...Corner in a Suitcase. Granny Holdeman grew up as Bertha Halstenberg in a family of 18, on a farm about 80 miles west of St. Louis. She left home at 18 to work in a St. Louis dental college. But what she wanted to be was a missionary...
...married a widower, raised a son and daughter, canned thousands of quarts of farm produce, and nursed her neighbors through illness and childbirth. But after 25 years of marriage, Bertha Holdeman and her husband were divorced, and she went back to evangelism and Bible teaching. She was in Tampa, when the Rev. John Turnbull and his wife met her while making preparations for an independent Baptist mission in Haiti. One day Bertha Holdeman sighed: "I wish you had a corner in your suitcase to stick me." A month later the Turnbulls invited her to come...