My favorite article of the week was a particularly uplifting one in today's issue of the Los Angeles Times. It was titled "Donations at $500 Million and Climbing", and it gave details on the Katrina relief effort. It turns out that we as a unified country are shattering the fundraising efforts of the tsunami and of 9/11. As of Tuesday evening, the US has raised in the first 10 days over two times more than 9/11 ($239 million) and over three times more than the tsunami ($163 million). In these dark times where most of the articles on Hurricane Katrina we read are stories of anguish and death, it is a breath of fresh air to read something uplifting. While Americans often get the bad reputation of being cold-hearted, this clearly is not always the case, and I commend any and all that are doing their part to help.