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...Caro effectively and devastatingly represents the brutality of the atmosphere: the horrible behavior becomes literally nauseating. It’s almost impossible to believe that grown men commit intimidating juvenility like tossing around a port-a-potty while a female worker is inside...

Author: By Faith O. Imafidon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: North Country | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

This dialogue of Caravaggio with the modern world was unfortunately cut short by a particularly negative turn in his life’s theme of fights and flights. He collapsed on a beach at Port Ercole, while trying to run after the ship that had left with all of his most recent work. While the 39 year-old’s body remained on that beach, his paintings sailed away: Caravaggio’s work outlived him. For centuries, his art was largely criticized as vulgar and lacking imagination. Only in the 1950s, after an exhibit of his work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Review: Franche Prose | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

Rita's eye took dead aim at the already debilitated Sabine Basin, which lies between Port Arthur, Texas, and Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsafe Harbor | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...infrastructure projects or flood control are mainlining saltwater straight into the freshwater swamps and bayous, where the brine burns the marsh plants and kills off the freshwater cypress trees. The most controversial of those channels is the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO, known locally as "Mister Go"), which the Port of New Orleans commissioned 50 years ago for quick Gulf access. But quick access to open water also means easy access for seawater. The MRGO and two other deepwater channels carved out of the bayou meet at the Industrial Canal just east of New Orleans to form a superchannel that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsafe Harbor | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...well with the firefighters. The Ohio team stayed at the Reliant Center sports arena in Houston from Friday night, as the storm gathered off the shore and then struck, until around 7 p.m. Saturday to finally get word on whether they were headed to Lake Charles or Port Arthur-or home to Ohio. Even then, as the group broke camp and was ready to roll in 16 minutes, "we still haven't gotten the order-officially," said Aungst, rolling his eyes. Later, Dennis Waldbillig of Cincinnati explains. "We're all get up and go type of guys, and sitting around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside a FEMA Search and Rescue Team | 9/27/2005 | See Source »

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