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...this had been foreshadowed with disconcerting accuracy last summer. Hundreds of regional and federal officials met in Baton Rouge, La., for an elaborate simulation exercise. The fictional "Hurricane Pam" left the city under 10 ft. of water and looked a lot like Katrina. The report on the simulation, obtained by TIME last week, warns that transportation would be a major problem...
...Wednesday, Gregory Breerwood, operations chief for the Army Corps of Engineers, told the Wall Street Journal that none of the plans had "ever included an event of this magnitude." But Hurricane Pam, an elaborate federally sponsored simulation conducted just one year ago, had predicted an eerily similar scenario with tens of thousands of deaths. One problem, in retrospect, is that no one had wanted to believe it. "I'll be honest with you. I'm the researcher, I'm doing all the models, and sometimes I would say to myself, 'Am I Chicken Little? Could this really happen?'" says Wolshon...
Cartoonist Judd Winick met his future wife Pam Ling on season three of The Real World. Now he's used her Chinese-American culture as the springboard for the story of a sarcastic 11-year-old who is the Te Xuan Ze, the protector of humanity from supernatural villains. It's a little derivative of Buffy the Vampire Slayer--O.K., a lot--but Juniper has its own clever twists; for instance, only she can see her monster enemies. Let it never be said nothing good came out of reality...
...reasons I love the tunic look is that it's more forgiving than a tight little T shirt or tank top," says Pam Fink, owner of Gatsby's, a popular specialty store in Great Barrington, Mass. "Especially if you have a bit of a stomach, it's a great alternative. And they're cut longer, so you can wear them over low-cut jeans...
...obnoxious traits. He’s sniveling, insensitive, and wholly unsympathetic, whether he’s telling a Hispanic co-worker that “Mexican” is a derogatory term or insulting his secretary’s looks. He’s joined by Jim and Pam (the equivalents of Tim and Dawn from the BBC version) and Dwight Schrute, the Gareth counterpart played by Rainn Wilson of “Six Feet Under.” Like its namesake, the series is shot like a reality show, with no laugh track and occasional cuts...