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Don’t let their normal Harvard college quirks fool you. They love to dance to “My Humps” in the locker room, act like Martha Stewart with potpourri galore in their dorm rooms, and they study for placement tests throughout a six-hour bus trip...
Although she will be relegated to the sideline, Lau’s dedication does not end when she steps off the field. According to Wylie, Lau studied for her placement exams on a six-hour bus ride to a tournament in New York. Her work does not stop, whether she’s grinding it out at midfield or at Lamont Library...
...hour after the troops rise at 7 a.m. for a breakfast of MREs and Propel Fortified Water, Reall gives them their mission: a "windshield survey," from their vehicles, of Westlake, a small community northwest of Lake Charles. "We don't want you getting out unless you come across a significantly collapsed structure that looks like it might have somebody in it," Reall says. Primarily, the team will log significant areas of damage. Dr. Randy Marriott gives a medical briefing. In addition to the usual hazards-such as the power lines-rescuers are told to watch out for pit vipers...
...Reall warns the six-member team to be ready to bivouac overnight, as the Coast Guard pilots are on the verge of exhausting their flight hours. "It was wetlands that were isolated. It's now an island. There may not even be anywhere you can lay down," Reall says. The group packs sledgehammers, MREs and medical kits. They're ready in a jiffy, and then they wait. Talk turns to food. "You plan on eating alligator?" one team member asks Lt. Chuck Wagoner of the West Chester, Ohio, Fire Department, pointing at a huge knife hung on Wagoner's shoulder...
Last Monday was supposed to be the final day for the 22 soldiers who have been working 16-hour days tracking the weather, fielding requests for equipment and troops, and preparing updates for generals in a cramped jerry-rigged Katrina operations center the basement of the Pentagon. Recovery efforts for that hurricane were to have wound down enough so that these reserve and National Guard soldiers could get to go back to their families and civilian jobs. But the approach of Hurricane Rita changed all that...