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Where is the recovery money going? Congress earmarked $23 billion last week for medical care, household items and temporary housing for evacuees. More than 200,000 trailers have been purchased. The government, which has scrapped plans to give $2,000 debit cards to thousands of hurricane victims, is capping total aid per household at $26,000, and almost all the rest of the money will go to federal agencies to work on the relief effort. --By Perry Bacon...
...class, but he had been spending spare time "strumming away" on acoustic and electric guitar. When he saw that notice, he felt a decidedly nonacademic stirring in his soul. "Ah," he thought, "this could be it." Mullen had been playing drums since the age of nine, charging money for household chores ("I should have done them anyway, I know") in hopes of getting his own kit. His parents finally gave him part of a set -- made by a toy manufacturer and retailing for $15 -- at which young Larry happily flailed away until his father, an environmental-health inspector and part...
...SALVATION ARMY 800-SAL-ARMY www.salvationarmyusa.org The Salvation Army is providing services to storm victims and first responders. A $100 donation will feed a family of four for two days, provide two cases of drinking water and one household clean-up kit with broom, mop, bucket and cleaning supplies...
...city that will have been steeping for weeks in a noxious soup. Although emergency-management officials are relieved that the flooding did not crack open the storage tanks of the large petrochemical factories south and east of the city, the waters still contain a poisonous mix of gasoline, household and industrial chemicals and stinking human waste. They will leave a layer of heavily contaminated silt everywhere. John Pardue, director of the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute at Louisiana State University, says, "We're going to have to find out how deep the contamination is. Can we scrape...
...Call Me Immendorff," skewered the champagne lifestyle of the German painter who visited Auckland in 1987.) Before his project was finished, some wealthy German patrons offered to purchase The Gift. Stevenson began to see another parallel with Fairweather, whose raft was divided up and used by Roti Islanders as household utensils. "I was interested in the crossover (with) the situation being offered to me by this group of collectors," he recalls...