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Despite the group's past blunders, charity watchdogs insist the $3 billion giant, mandated by Congress to work with federal agencies to aid victims of natural disasters, has risen to Katrina's various challenges. "The Red Cross has turned over a new leaf,"says Daniel Borochoff, president of the American...
The next day a California woman who learned about the family online donated frequent-flyer miles so that the rest of the family could fly to Boston. The local fire department brought an ambulance for Yolanda's mother, who has since been placed in a nursing home nearby. "The firemen...
Ugandans learned their ABCs before other Africans. That's ABC as in Abstinence, Being faithful and using a Condom. The east African nation was at the center of the aids pandemic when it began in the 1980s - and was the first African country to fight the disease seriously. The ABC...
Sanchez learned that autumn that there were 38 boxes of documents specifically related to the city of Fallujah, a hotbed of Sunni rebellion. Months later, when military-intelligence officers finally were able to review some of the documents, many of which had been marked NO INTELLIGENCE VALUE, the officers found...
How the crucial housing issue is ultimately handled--much like the final bill for rebuilding the Gulf--is anybody's guess. For all the imposing dollar figures and bold proposals being bandied about, it's clear that Washington is making this up as it goes along. "It's going to...