Word: sicklied
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...married Henny and, astonishingly, took up dentistry again. So what? a reader might ask. "I wasn't sure there would be any interest in this story," Seth confides from the office of his London publisher. "My mother asked me to interview Shanti Uncle because he was sick and lonely. She thought it would cheer him, and I thought it was my duty as a son and great-nephew. But his verve and the story itself convinced me there was something there, the relationship between two remarkable people." They made a strange couple. Short and energetic, Shanti loved talk...
...former Louisiana Senator John Breaux described his beloved city, as state officials told him they feared the death toll could reach as high as 10,000, spread across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. No matter what the final tally, the treatment of the living, black and poor and old and sick, was a disgrace. The problem with putting it all into numbers is that they stop speaking clearly once they get too big: an estimated half a million refugees, a million people without power, 30,000 soldiers, up to $100 billion in damage. "This is our tsunami," said Biloxi, Miss., Mayor...
Helicopters airlifted the sick from around the city to the airport, converted into a field hospital where patients were being pushed around on luggage carts and triaged for evacuation. At Lakefront Airport on the edge of the city, fights broke out for seats on the departing choppers. "The gang bangers," said Jimmy Dennis, 34, a Lakefront Airport fire fighter who had been up for two nights trying to keep order, "couldn't understand that we had to get the sick people out first." Frightened, the small band of fire fighters called in 10 New Orleans police with semiautomatic weapons...
...case with every hurricane, not everybody would be leaving. In truth, few U.S. cities have good plans for taking out the sick, the elderly and those without cars of their own. The situation in New Orleans, though, was particularly dire. Officials knew that the least mobile residents lived in the most flood-prone part of town. But they had no solution. "When I asked that question, I got a lot of unsure looks," says Brian Wolshon, an engineer with the L.S.U. team who helped design the evacuation plans with state police and transportation officials...
...Earlier in the day, fights had broken out for seats on outbound helicopters. "The gang-bangers," said Jimmy Dennis, 34, a Lakefront Airport firefighter who had been up for two nights trying to care for the sick and keep order, "couldn't understand that we had to get the sick people out first." Frightened, the small band of firefighters called in ten New Orleans levee police with shotguns and semi-automatic weapons to calm the crowd. But once the situation was diffused, half the cops had to respond to other calls...