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Paula Lane WAVELAND, MISS. As water filled the house where Lane and her friend Roy Henderson sought shelter, Henderson dived into the floodwaters and returned with a small boat that had been tied to a neighbor's tree. Clinging desperately to their tiny ark, 10 people floated to safety through the hurricane's winds. "It felt like somebody dropped nuclear bombs on us. There's a lot of dead people here. We've lost a lot of family members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storm Lashed | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...Take my neighbor, a Québecois who repeatedly insisted to Tanzanians who spoke of their desire to emigrate to America that it was a “racist, abusive place.” He himself professed to be frightened to cross the American border. (The Patriot Act, he explained, had turned the U.S. into a police state.) And why, he wondered, would anyone want to go to America when Africa was such a paradise...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Good Works, Here and There | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

According to one Winthrop resident, who requested not be identified, the beach ball incident was part of a prank on their rival neighbor house. A group of Winthrop students distributed more than twenty beach balls to the Tercentenary Theatre crowd in hopes of catching Folds’ attention, said the source...

Author: By Mark Giangreco jr., CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scene and Heard: Still Singin’ It | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...alternative in the short story “Adams”: “I never could stomach Adams and then one day he’s standing in my kitchen, in his underwear,” the story begins. As the quarrel between the narrator and his quirky neighbor escalates to the point where they have no choice but to try to kill each other and each other’s children, the vocabulary of “home” and “family” and “freedom” in which Saunders couches...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weigel Room: Stories Frolic at the Border of Absurdity | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...change in the conversation over the recent weeks of spring when the warnings about drooping glaciers syncopated with the news of rising energy prices. People aren't about to wait for politicians to take the lead: now it's every buyer, furnace owner and bill payer for himself. One neighbor called me to compare utility bills, to see whether gas or oil was more horrifying. A survey by Standard and Poor's found that family restaurants in the Midwest were hurting because people had decided to eat out less. There's a four-month wait for a Toyota Prius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Gas Prices Soar, the Marketplace Reacts | 5/2/2006 | See Source »

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