After Joplin Tornado, a Search for the Missing - NYTimes.com

After Joplin Tornado, a Search for the Missing - NYTimes.com: "At least 122 people died, a number that seems likely to rise. An additional 1,500 people remained on the official list of those who remained unaccounted for, which ballooned in a flood of worried phone calls but is gradually shrinking as the names of the living and the dead are scratched off."