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There is evidence that it takes repeated batterings to shake people's tenacity. Natural disasters do not often occur in so predictable a manner. Mary Skipper is getting ready to replace her mobile home near Charleston, S.C., in a spot hit hard by Hurricane Hugo in September. "I know this is a flood plain," she explains. "But something like Hugo may never happen again for another 100 years...
Californians are starting to calculate their risks a bit differently. Rene and Tony Donaldson live near Stanford University. Their $425,000 home escaped major damage in the Pretty Big One, though the tremors did smash their collection of American Indian pottery. "Now I know why California Indians didn't have a pottery tradition," Rene says with the deadpan cool of a real Californian. "In the future we'll collect baskets instead." But the Donaldsons are also looking into quake insurance, which they turned down when they bought their house four years ago. And while they are still determined to stand...
...last week there were some heartening signs of recuperation. Nearly all the 90,000 people who sought refuge in motels or Red Cross emergency shelters have either returned home or moved in with family or friends. Roughly 85% of the 224,000 people idled temporarily by the hurricane have gone back to work. In Charleston tourists in horse-drawn carriages gawked at debris heaped outside antebellum homes in the quaint historic area, and the sounds of rebuilding filled the air. Says Paul Stein, president of a home-remodeling company: "We have at least five years of work ahead...
...some of Hugo's victims seem to have drawn renewed courage from the calamity on the West Coast. The realization that there are even worse disasters than the one they suffered has reinforced their determination to restore normality to their lives. Hugo tore the roof off Betty Disher's home on Sullivan's Island, which some experts think should be off limits to development because of its vulnerability to hurricanes. She was unable to watch televised reports about the quake. Now she and her husband Johnny have made an optimistic choice. "We have decided that we are going to repair...
...plague many of the Soviet republics. East Europeans are far less concerned about a Moscow-initiated crackdown than about a heavy-handed backlash from within the bloc. So is Mikhail Gorbachev. If Czechoslovakia were to launch an anti-opposition campaign, warns Bromke, "it would undermine Gorbachev's prestige at home and in the bloc and make it more difficult for him internationally...