This man is in terrible shape, ... His health circumstances are really barely short of extreme, and I have no doubt that he's in need of skillful medical attention.

This was extreme circumstances,'' said Pat Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

There is only so much a health care provider could do under such extraordinary circumstances.

Without a doubt we have been handed as extreme a challenge of rebuilding on the Gulf Coast as imaginable. But Mississippi is a great state with great people, and already we're welcoming golf, gaming and other tourists to the rest of the state. This will help the state and the state in turn will be better equipped to help the Gulf Coast and its residents affected by Katrina the more visitors we host. So the best thing we can and will do is to keep keeping on. We want visitors to come see why Mississippi is a special place and judge for themselves why Mississippi is considered a rising star of the golf-and-gaming world.

To stay on the island during those circumstances would expose anyone to the certain risk of death or extreme, extended hardship,