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"When schools reopen after the Thanksgiving holiday, second- through fifth-graders at Gautier Elementary School will return to a building they have not attended for two years. For kindergarten and first-grade students, this will be the first time they will have classes at the school"
"While authorities have vowed to contain geological aftershocks from the dam, poor farmers worry about being swallowed up by landslides. The resulting tensions threaten to rekindle the bitter clashes that long dogged the project. 'Sometimes the ground rumbles and shakes, dogs bark, babies cry. It frightens us too,' said Xiang's neighbor, Su Gongxiang, showing his front door that will no longer shut."
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency is barring employees from entering thousands of stored travel trailers over concerns about hazardous fumes, while more than 48,000 other trailers continue to be used by hurricane victims in Louisiana and Mississippi. FEMA is advising employees not to enter any of the roughly 70,000 trailers in storage areas across the country, but the directive does not apply to other trailers still in use, agency spokeswoman Mary Margaret Walker said Thursday. 'It's common knowledge that formaldehyde emission levels rise when they are closed in the heat and humidity without any ventilation,' Walker said. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., accused FEMA of using a double standard, and said it 'defies logic' that occupied trailers are safer than those in storage. 'I don't really buy that argument,' she said in an interview. 'It makes no sense, in that most of these (occupied) trailers are closed up and locked during the day"
San Diego's 2-1-1 system had to take on 1,200 volunteers to handle the calls that came in that week.' Now national social-services groups, including the United Way, are turning the heat up on a national campaign to make the service universal throughout the United States. They're supporting legislation before Congress that would create a single federal-funding source and uniform requirements for service, bringing an end to the current patchwork approach."
"Mark and Traci Jones couldn't believe someone would slice open the dining tent at Urban Life Mission on Howard Avenue and steal another television, but that's what happened Thursday. By Friday morning, however, they were overwhelmed by the generosity of the people on the Coast. 'We've had four people come in so far and drop off three DVD (players),'"
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Blogged with Flock
"Here are photographs from the daylong dedication cermeonies surrounding the Biloxi Bay Bridge, held at the base of the bridge on Point Cadet in Biloxi, as well as images from the ribbon-tying ceremony conducted at the center of the bridge. Also included are early morning pre-ceremony photos of the bridge and Point Cadet Marina."
