Word: reliefer
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Hurricane Katrina has forced some 1 million people to leave their homes. Their 14-day Red Cross hotel vouchers are starting to expire, and their bank accounts are dwindling. Still, relief workers insist that the displaced masses need stable housing of their own, where they can exert some control over their destinies; they don't need to share a bathroom with your children. "Bringing people into your home doesn't give them a sense of independence or dignity," says Daniel Webster, an Episcopal reverend who has been working with the Red Cross relief operation in Utah...
...other cases, though, the collision of strangers and good intentions proves once again that the bureaucracy lacks imagination. After King struck out with the relief organizations, he began looking online. He found openyourhome.com started by Serena Howard, a mother of five in Fayetteville, Ark. (So far, Howard says, she has registered almost 30,000 would-be hosts and placed 2,000 evacuees.) That's where King found the Meehan-Hoo family...
...games with Marie's daughter Sabrina, while Taylor, 9, climbed the tree out front. The population in the Attleboro household has almost doubled. "This hectic situation has got to calm down," admits King. They plan to hold weekly family meetings and vent freely all the time. To Jan's relief, Marie has started to chastise the Meehan-Hoo kids. "She jumped in and said, 'Don't do that.' I was so glad. I felt like I didn't have to hold my breath," says...
...private-leaning evacuees seek out the kind of education they left behind, would be mostly Catholic) represents a historic federal bankrolling of those institutions and their overtly religious subset, and it drew quick fire from Democrats like Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. He pronounced himself "disappointed that "[Bush] has proposed ... relief using such a politically charged approach," while California Representative George Miller complained that "to launch a new private-school voucher program in the midst of a disaster response creates a quagmire that could hinder rather than expedite the return to school for tens of thousands of students...
...enjoyed in life, which the mingqi were designed to provide. The Cernuschi displays a vast array of these once-buried companions-dancers, musicians, cooks, soldiers and guardians, as well as ducks, birds and horses. These animated figures, along with the museum's glazed models of forts and bas-relief fragments from tomb walls, provide an extraordinary glimpse of Chinese life some 2,000 years ago: how people dressed, what they ate, what weapons they carried, what forms of transportation they used, what kinds of houses they lived in. One extremely well-modeled terra-cotta cook, probably from a Sichuan tomb...