Word: outposts
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...teeming mess of violent desperation it became in the storm's wake. Much of it remains under water, stewing in a putrid mix of chemicals and corpses. But in parts of the city, the floodwaters receded sufficiently last week to reveal something strange and new: part frontier outpost, part fetid deathscape, where the drowned and the saved coexisted for days because neither had any other place...
...with large jugs of water and iced tea by a volunteer shuttle service based at the Crawford Peace House, in this tiny Texas town some 20 miles south of Waco. Tracy Sivacek, the 40-year-old wife of an Army Apache helicopter pilot, delivers water to Sheehan's busy outpost. Sivacek left behind her husband and disabled five-year-old son on Monday and drove nonstop from Fort Rucker, Alabama to Crawford, pausing only to sleep in a Waffle House parking lot. Her husband served one tour in Iraq and, she says, he has not been handling the adjustment back...
Whether we will is impossible to know. The space station has long been a fiscal black hole, and with the eventual cost of the massive outpost projected to top $100 billion, NASA is not likely to abandon it without a mighty fight. The three crewmen currently on board--two Americans and a Russian--have a Soyuz re-entry vehicle aboard, and both the U.S. and Russia have the wherewithal to go fetch them if that should fail. But once they're gone, will anyone be back? The space station can't operate without the shuttle to service it, and with...
...climb. When that happens, she'll swear like a trooper. Then she'll break into a hearty, long laugh. Here's an energetic cop, only seven years in the job, who craves action and responsibility but doesn't take herself too seriously. To the smiling, freckled Curragh, this outpost, and the surrounding islands, is an amazing place - "Magical Munda," she calls it now. "But you could easily be isolated and miserable out here," she says, recalling her first impressions last April, when she arrived knowing nothing about the sleepy coastal town that was to become her base for the next...
...Chicago club that launched comics Mike Myers, Tina Fey and Andy Dick--if it doesn't change its name. "It is confusing," says Dick. "I wandered in there with my discus once." Rather than duke it out over the trademark of the word olympic, the club and its L.A. outpost will now be called I.O. The seven dirty words, luckily for the comics, are still public domain...