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...arena normally used for concerts and basketball games was converted into the largest emergency care center in the state. White cloth partitions sectioned the gray concrete into an intensive care unit, pediatrics, a pharmacy, and other units normally found in a hospital. Caffeinated doctors stood along the sloping ramps of the arena, resting between buses of refugees fresh from the New Orleans Convention Center and other havens of last resort...
...quickest trends I've seen in 12 years," says Jeremy Welt, vice president of new media at Warner Music Group. For the first time in radio history, audiences can "shape their own listening experience," says Jack Isquith, head of music-industry relations at AOL, which, like TIME, is a unit of Time Warner...
...early hours of the disaster. Then, although Zucschlag's staff is not trained to do triage, he sent 10 ambulance medics to the Superdome while his 40 ambulances and seven helicopters served as the initial rescue force in the city. For 40 hours, his medics were the only treatment unit there. Zucschlag tells TIME he ran into plenty of roadblocks, but he barreled through them. "The top dogs [at FEMA] say go ahead, but lower down, people in the field want paperwork," he says. "I am gambling a bit, but I am saving lives. If I get sued, fine...
Brian Bennett Assigned to a storm rescue unit, our former Baghdad bureau chief assesses official response...
...like intensity. At one point, while the CH-53 was en route from the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., Army officers on the ground radioed that the crew should stop and give them a ride someplace else first. Willard and Cunningham, who had been dispatched from their regular unit in New River, N.C., answered, "Negative, sir": they didn't want this mission interrupted. Said one Marine officer who was not part of the Voodoo Child crew: "They know they need to come in here and execute as if it were combat. You're seeing people at the lowest levels...