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FEMA trailers for temporary housing are a rare sight in East New Orleans, largely because there is no electricity and inundated city inspectors are behind on approving utility hookups. Entergy New Orleans, which filed for bankruptcy protection after Katrina, plans to double its repair work force so that most of the remaining 75,000 customers will have power by year's end, thus clearing the way for trailers to be installed. The move comes none too soon, since FEMA is cutting off payments for hotel rooms by Dec. 1 to encourage families to move into permanent homes, using money they...
...experiences of child soldiers are similar everywhere,” Iweala explains.And though the lack of specificity can sometimes be wearisome, it allows for a stronger emphasis on the emotional dimensions of Agu’s story, which achieves the level of classical tragedy without losing sight of that bush...
...label, more justifiably for their Warp Records-killer debut as Manitoba than for Snaith’s more recent pastoral glitch. But instead of the timid knob-twiddling and reclusive laptopping characteristic of the genre, Caribou played like a real live band. In fact, there were no computers in sight: the album’s dense programming was accurately reproduced with only keyboards, a guitar, and two drum sets. While in general a second drummer on stage means either a gimmick or an inability to keep rhythm, these performers actually put them to good use, creating some very heady interplay...
...uses color recognition to determine that you are human, and then it offers a high five. Be quick about it, because it's apt to pull the old "you're too slow" maneuver. It comes with a green bowling ball and three red pins, which it can recognize on sight and play with a little. The play is clumsy, but it's still impressive to see it carry one red pin over to the other two and set it down without being directed...
They say love is a funny thing. It’s impossible to explain, yet impossibly easy to recognize. From the outside it seems irrational, unreasonable, even crazy, but when you’re in it, love somehow makes perfect sense. Some people believe in love at first sight, but most don’t even see it coming. Love quietly grows within you, filling you up until one day you wake up and something just feels different. Nothing in particular has changed, but somehow, everything has changed. Your stomach twists up in knots, your heart sits a little lighter...