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...Venturelli said that Porter station’s depth is not necessarily a liability because if there were a radiological attack at ground level, the station could act as a natural fallout shelter...
...many, the celebration was tempered by memories of the suffering that took place on the same site barely more than a year ago, when the Superdome went in a matter of days from a shelter to a sweltering pit of human suffering after Hurricane Katrina flooded the surrounding streets and knocked out power...
...Harvard has not been a stranger to some of the ugliest fallout of the war on terror, as we lose liberties and gain bigotry. Some students can count on the Harvard bubble to shelter them, while others cannot. Assaults on Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians have quadrupled nationwide since Sept. 11, according to the FBI. And that violence has recently reared its head on campus, from last November’s assault on Huma Farid ’06 to an April harassment of an anonymous South Asian student amid a torrent of racial slurs. This violence strikes...
...vehicle churned along a muddy track that ran through sugarcane fields and dead-ended on a beach. It was pouring, and lightning stabbed out of thunderclouds. The silent woman, the bodyguard, the photographer and I took shelter in an empty beach shack. I tried to figure out who the woman was. Casta?o's mistress? The girlfriend of a jailed drug lord who needed Casta?o's help? I never found out. Just then, a procession of musicians and dancers appeared out of the rain, as if from the pages of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. On closer examination the women dancers...
...Also, according to the report, Atlanta did a better job than some cities at managing the influx by setting up "megacenters" that combined FEMA, housing, hospital referral and medical services in centralized locations. The city's expanse of shelter space and existing plans to house natural disaster victims in them helped too, and Atlanta got "extremely lucky" that hospitals had few scheduled surgeries due to the upcoming Labor Day weekend last year...