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...family. Her parents live outside Houston along Galveston Bay. After having stayed with family and friends during the mandatory evacuation, they were allowed a temporary return to salvage some possessions. Steele said looters were spotted in her mother’s neighborhood, and her house might have to be torn down due to damaged from a felled tree. “Now they’re just sitting and waiting,” she said. “You feel bad that you can’t do anything, but we’re lucky.” Marie...
...Bondurant, Iowa, mother of four who cleans houses for a living. "What exactly are those changes?" Deb Anderson, a barber from Urbandale, Iowa, says, "I know we need change, and maybe he can really do it and make a difference like Martin Luther King. But I'm just torn ... He almost seems too good to be true...
...centerpiece of the 19-by-24-foot trashscape is a mountain of discarded mattresses. Shredded, torn and piled one on top of another, he renders them both distasteful and somehow comforting. Adding a few strokes to capture a surprising softness of one brown fouton, Liu steps back and looks over his work. "Everything has been used by humans," he says. "You feel it in your heart...
...case suggests that after Julie Ward was hacked to death, her remains were set on fire. She was probably raped before her murder. Yet in the immediate aftermath of the crime, the Kenyan authorities refused to declare the death a murder, insisting that Julie either killed herself or was torn apart by wild animals. When Ward presented evidence to the contrary, pointing out that animals or dead women cannot start fires, a British Foreign Office official told him that his daughter was probably struck by lightning (This has also since been ruled...
...family and I were torn about whether to stay in the city or leave town," Martin said by e-mail. "Though there was a 'mandatory' evacuation, we knew that our part of town (The Garden District/Uptown) would not flood, and we wanted to take care of any damage to our house if need...