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Greensburg residents were understandably skeptical. Many were still living in the clusters of trailers nicknamed FEMA-villes, and they were more concerned with getting any kind of roof over their heads than with the quality of its insulation. "There was resistance to change," says Gene West, the county commissioner. "This is a rural area and a conservative...
This past November, a student at the Art Institute of Boston died after falling off the roof of a building in Allston; in January 2007, a Boston University student fell to his death from his fourth-floor window; and in September 2006, a Northeastern University student died after falling off the roof of his off-campus apartment building...
...anything but expected. Mudakir watched as a neighbor, who had been inside eating breakfast, came tumbling into the street. "There was an explosion," Mudakir recalls. "Then the mud started to flow." He gaped in amazement as a geyser of scalding sludge shot five meters into the air, collapsing the roof of his neighbor's house. Mudakir froze. Then he gathered his mother and two brothers from inside his own house. "The whole village was panicking. Everyone ran." Mudakir didn't stop to collect his family's belongings. He assumed he'd be able to return home...
...election, animal voters have already spoken up. They held Mitt Romney to account when Time revealed that in 1983 he had strapped his dog to the roof of his car in a twelve-hour drive from Boston to Ontario (his first excuse that “my dog likes fresh air,” did not go down well with animal voters). And they questioned Mike Huckabee’s judgment when Newsweek alleged that, as Governor of Arkansas, he had intervened to stop an animal cruelty investigation into his son’s hanging and stoning to death...
...We’re a tight-knit family, but even so, any event that brings that many relatives under one roof can easily devolve into argument...