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Bernazzani rode out the storm in the FBI office, perched on the edge of Lake Pontchartrain. The howling, punishing winds stripped off two-thirds of the roof. He spent five days there in all before being helicoptered to safety...
...reached my father on his cell phone the Monday night after the storm spared our house and left him and my mother unharmed but without power and conventional phone service. When I told him about the rising floodwaters throughout New Orleans, the rain coming in through the torn Superdome roof, and the lack of air conditioning and lighting for the evacuated multitudes inside, his reaction was predictable. "What a shame. I'm sorry to hear about all that suffering," he said, before adding, "But I am so glad to be living out here in the country, far from that mess...
...paid for - the work. "But the old machinery was in a bad state of repair, and we all decided unanimously that we couldn't take the risk of doing nothing. It seemed like the least bad solution." If so, it was pursued at arguably the worst time. While a roof over the entrance was removed for the installation of the new system in early 2001, drenching rains poured directly into the cave's entrance, bringing with them dirt and, some suspect, fusarium spores. The danger that spores or other biological agents might contaminate the cave had been foreseen. Jean-Fran...
...survey, committee members praised the Montessori program for encouraging a sense of independence and a connection to the environment in young children. Other committee members raised concerns about beginning an isolated program within the Tobin School, which has a history of having several competing programs under its roof. “The history of the Tobin is that at one time, there were three different programs within the school. It’s a period that...was not necessarily a positive time in the school’s history,” said committee member Nancy Walser...
...Physicist,’ I designed a huge plastic roof thing that came out over [the stage]. There was this amazing moment of color that lit the whole stage…it was the best vignette of any show I’ve done so far,” she says...