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...read on a Dining Services "table tent" the other day that there's a "Recipes from Home" dinner or something that's coming up. I am scared to death that my mom sent in her recipe for "Weenies and Beans with Cauliflower Florets." Anxious in Adams...
...immediate aftermath there were small graces everywhere. Crime went way down. Drivers engaged in sweetly elaborate pantomimes as they arrived at intersections without stoplights. In Van Nuys Park, Tracy Calderone, a young rock-group cameraman, gave his tent to a Mexican family of total strangers who needed it more than he did. Neighbors in West Los Angeles found themselves sharing breakfast. "What a great way to meet people," one said. "We should do this more often." At a comedy club that offered free admission to anyone who brought something broken by the quake, Rick Alves presented his toe -- broken during...
Recent immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere, even those cast into the tent camps, declared fatalistically that they had no intention of moving away. On the other hand, psychologist Michael Gellert noted that many longtime residents had heard so much about the danger that they took earthquakes for granted. When the possibility became real, many were jolted out of their denial. "I used to figure that if you have a life-span of 70 years, you'll have to go through one really bad one -- three minutes of absolute hell and then a few months thereafter of cleanup...
...otherwise wouldn't take," says Blair Ruble, director of the Kennan Institute of Advanced Russian Studies in Washington. Just who, Ruble asks, is really out there selling reform to the Russian public? He sees no one doing the job. "They've got to cajole, to bring people into the tent...
...Jabaliya, the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and the birthplace of the anti-Israeli intifadeh, Aziz's family and friends raised a tent for week-long mourning ceremonies. A militant wearing a black hood wielded an ax painted red. let slaughtering the jews be our road to paradise, read a banner on the tent. "We are jealous of Anwar," said one of Aziz's friends. "We feel like cowards because we have not yet done the same thing...