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...coming in to what had become an impromptu staging area, radioing out for water and helicopters to get these folks to better-equipped triage areas - like New Orleans International Airport where tents and medicine were available and busses could deliver them to shelters in Texas and northern Louisiana. Large, twin-blade Chinook helicopters had been able to ferry about 400 off the strip. But more people just kept coming and coming, more than can be accommodated with so few personnel, no rations and one port-a-potty...
...Czar of Bizarre Director and filmmaker David Lynch has plans to bring Transcendental Meditation to the classroom so that students and teachers can know themselves better [PEOPLE, July 25]. Long admired as an original thinker, Lynch won many fans with his darkly atmospheric 1990 TV series Twin Peaks. TIME deemed the show "hauntingly original." As the 1990 fall TV season began, we devoted a cover story to Lynch, describing him as a "wild-at-art genius" and including his whimsical remarks on staying young [Oct. 1, 1990]: "Listen to [Lynch] on the subject of aging?which, as so many things...
Voters in Milwaukee, Wis., will decide next month whether to join several municipalities--including Twin Falls, Idaho, and Myrtle Beach, S.C.--that in recent years have passed mandatory-prepayment rules...
...built in 1994 to prevent terrorists crossing into Israel, gazes out over a sea of concrete. This is the village of Beit Hanoun, which merges with the massive refugee camp of Jabalya and, in turn, Gaza City itself. There is no break in the drab urban sprawl until our Twin Star chopper passes the dunes around the Israeli settlement of Netzarim...
...Four miles north along the coastal dunes, the twin smokestacks of the Ashkelon power plant blink their red warning lights. These, too, are within easy range of the rockets of Hamas once Israel takes its troops out of northern Gaza, as are the massive circular fuel tanks around its perimeter, and Israeli officials fear a strike against the plant could cripple Israel's electricity grid. It abuts the city of Ashkelon, which has grown to a mpopulation of 120,000 as new immigrants from Russia flooded into its bright white apartment blocks during the last decade. "That," says Miri Eisen...