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...group to group, telling them that they would get out "when it is safe." But she too was worrying--about her husband and two children, whom she had not heard from. With no electricity and the backup generators flooded, the staff got news from the hospital's lone ham radio. At one point, a helicopter rescue was planned, with a pickup point atop Tulane University Hospital, three blocks away. Nurses carrying babies boarded rowboats--respirating the sickest ones by "hand bagging," a method of forcing air into the lungs. But the helicopter was commandeered for another mission, and the nurses...
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...middle are millions of citizens horrified by the hatred they've seen in the eyes of young countrymen since Dec. 11. Many have blamed the media for helping to incite the violence - a charge for which there's plenty of evidence in the form of aggressive talkback-radio transcripts. A fear is that the rioters of Dec. 11 may have started something that no one will be able to finish. "Look at this text message," says 19-year-old Muslim Noah Issa, who works as a security guard in Cronulla. "Wake up, wake up, oh lions of Lebanon," it begins...
...raking in profits for his corporate parent. Indeed, Sirius boss Mel Karmazin aims to generate $100 million in ad revenues by 2007, up from less than $10 million now. Stern is essential to that equation. Karmazin, after all, has long had faith in the nation?s premier radio bad boy to bring in the bucks, going back decades to their days at Infinity Broadcasting, where Karmazin steadfastly defended Stern from the FCC and refused to kick...
...fall of 1999, according to Arbitron, and his ratings declined over this summer in just about every major market. Part of the slide may be a result of Stern?s relentless self-promotion, pitching his move to Sirius so often that he at times sounded liked a satellite radio infomercial. In recent interviews, he also admitted to being in a professional slump...