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...According to a new Mason-Dixon poll released on May 31, more than half of the population who live within 50 miles of the coast do not believe they are vulnerable to hurricanes, tornados or flooding. Of the 1,100 adults polled, 52% said they have no family disaster plan, nearly a third have no hurricane survival kit and nearly 90% said they have done nothing to make their homes stronger. Nearly half of those with insurance polices have not reviewed them within the last year; 47% of policy owners said that they are not covered for flooding...
...initiative's message is simple: plan ahead. Secure your home, have a plan for your family, for the elderly, the disabled, pets. Prepare your insurance claim. Have a three-day supply of food and water for each individual, flashlights and first-aid kit. Secure extra medicine...
...noticed [Tinky Winky] has a lady's purse, but I didn't realize he's a boy.' EWA SOWINSKA, Poland's government-appointed children's rights watchdog, announcing plans to investigate whether the Teletubbies promote homosexuality. The plan was dropped a day later...
...years of witnessing this misery, Calais officials voted last month to reopen a refugee center in September near the city's ferry dock. Immigrants will receive hot meals and showers there, but, unlike the shuttered shelter in Sangatte, no one will be allowed to sleep in the building. The plan has outraged some politicians in Britain, where, as in Sarkozy's campaign, immigration is a hot issue. Conservative Party immigration spokesman Damian Green has said he fears a fresh stampede of illegal immigrants from a new Calais center. The Calais mayor's spokesman Bernard Barron counters that his city...
Sunny, oracular and indefatigable, Libeskind tends to smile, especially when he's at his most argumentative. He knows that people like their geniuses to be daringly off the cuff sometimes. So he sketched out his initial plan for the museum on a dozen or so napkins, which the ROM duly displayed behind frames when it mounted a show of proposals by the architects in the running for the commission. But ROM director William Thorsell says that Libeskind followed up his napkins with the most thorough analysis of the project offered by any of the contenders...