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Just over a week ago, seven-year-old "R." was trying to gamble his way into some extra money. The 4-ft. Jordan wannabe challenged his 6-ft. neighbor to a pickup game played with a makeshift basketball hoop fashioned from a milk crate and plywood. "R. said, 'Put your 15 up,' and he threw 15[cents] on the ground," says Demetrius Tulloch, 20. "R. was always saying, 'Put your money up.'" And as always, Tulloch let the boy win his loose change. Just around the corner at the Wash Factory, R.'s eight-year-old buddy "E." was hanging...
Agent Horan found herself in Nairobi last week presiding over a makeshift command center in the partly wrecked railway station bus park across from the embassy. Her task: to supervise 215 FBI agents in both capitals, along with explosives experts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as they sort through concrete rubble, twisted metal, bits of glass--every scrap of debris that could yield the vital physical evidence that might identify who was responsible for the senseless violence...
...monsoon season has brought the worst flooding to China's industrial and agricultural heartland since the 1930s. More than 2,000 people have been killed, and as many as 240 million others have been forced to evacuate their homes or found themselves clawing their way to safety aboard makeshift rafts. The flood damage is estimated to run at $24 billion, and 5.5 million homes have been destroyed. More importantly, the floods may have dashed the country's hopes of reaching its economic growth targets -- a deeply troubling scenario in an economy which has to maintain an 8 percent growth rate...
Like O'Faolain, Julia Scully uses the memoir to reveal yourself to you. The primer begins in the emotional void of a San Francisco orphanage where Scully ends up after her father's suicide. By the time she rejoins her hapless mother for a make-do life in a makeshift roadhouse in godforsaken Alaska, "the smell of stale beer and cigarette smoke" is perfume to her, the rough miners princes. She works like a dog and builds an inner structure that gets her to Stanford and then to New York City, where she becomes a successful editor...
More than 150 victims, mostly first-years, somehow made it to an overcrowded UHS, where the lucky received hospital beds and others swooned in the hallways. Scores more never made it into UHS, receiving makeshift care from any healthy friend they could find...