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Number of deaths caused by tornadoes in the U.S. from April through June, the first peak tornado season since 1950 with no fatalities...
...this Arkansas town of 819, an hour's drive north of Little Rock, were called up for duty in Iraq by the Arkansas National Guard; one more was called by the Air Force Reserve. It was a blow not just to the weekend warriors-who were more accustomed to tornado cleanup than fighting-but to their families and Bradford's civic life as well. The town's big projects-to update the water system, jail the local methamphetamine dealers and make a clean sweep of the junk in people's yards-slowly stalled. Given fears for the town's soldiers...
...head. "My highs are real high and my lows are real low. It's like a light switch, my mind." Hoping that other soldiers will seek help, he's open about taking Paxil, an antidepressant, for posttraumatic stress disorder. Loud noises-even test runs of the town's tornado siren-unnerve him. He has deactivated all the alarms in his home and even the seat-belt warnings in his cars. "Get into my car and there's no ding-ding," he says...
...voice, devouring me like so much eye candy with an unabashed lust so palpable that I could feel it on my skin. I also saw he was nervous, and I found that endearing. He shouted good-bye to my family (they seemed subdued, as in the wake of a tornado), ushered me quickly out the door and helped me into a hired sedan with a driver he introduced by name (which impressed...
...childhood, both of which were spent in Omaha, Neb. Rips discovered, for starters, that his father was raised in a brothel, which was run by Rips' great-grandparents. He revisited some vivid memories of his own childhood: a local handyman who always walked down stairs backward, a tornado that sucked his grandmother up through a garbage chute. When he was 9 years old, Rips watched a circus acrobat plunge to her death from a 50-ft. pole. (Naked Lady shares a kind of adolescent gothic vibe with Frank Conroy's excellent Stop-Time...