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This was the surreal reality in which I and thousands of others found ourselves. My co-worker held my hand tightly and we helped each other across Water Street in the direction of South Street Seaport. We had our bearings enough to know that if we could get to the Seaport, turn left and walk north under FDR Drive, we would hopefully, eventually, meet daylight...
Tupelo, Miss., is five hours by road from the closest seaport. It's two hours from an international airport. And it's nearly an hour's drive from an interstate highway. If you were trying to get to any of those places, you wouldn't start here. Tupelo is isolated in the hilly, northeastern corner of the poorest and least educated state in the union. If you've ever heard of Tupelo, it's probably as the birthplace of Elvis Presley. It seems an unlikely magnet for foreign investment and export employment. But that's exactly what it has become...
...increasingly loyal to whoever can pay them, not necessarily their fellow clansmen. Still, the warlords remain strong enough to be spoilers. In a rare display of unity but characteristic defiance of authority, a group of them recently announced they would stop the government from reopening Mogadishu's main seaport. "We will tell them to f___ off. Your boys can't do that," says faction leader Mohamed Qanyare Afrah outside his home northeast of the city. "The gun is loaded...
...connected by a chain. As Letterman would say, Kids, don't try this at home. Visually spectacular--and spectacularly dangerous--fire spinning can now be seen not just at the Burning Man festival or in Phish-concert parking lots but also at New York City's touristy South Street Seaport and Los Angeles' Venice Beach. "When those flames are whooshing around me," sighs Ravera, "I feel like I'm in an adrenaline-fueled Eden...
...South Korean soldiers holding branches over their heads, as if those sprigs could camouflage them from enemy aircraft, were lumbering through Seoul's dusty, potholed streets. And by nightfall, evacuation of embassy families had begun. Fortuitously, a Norwegian freighter with accommodations for 12 passengers lay at anchor in the seaport of Inchon. Crammed into the ship's hold as it sailed the next morning for safety in Japan were a couple of hundred women and children, including missionary wives and others. Everything in the world that my wife and I owned--clothing, furniture, books, pictures--was there in Korea...