Too many pockets of the region were dotted with devastation.
And driving remained a perilous option, with gas scarcities gripping pockets of the region and crossings like the Holland Tunnel still barring private vehicles on Monday morning.
For two months Ms. Mufti took her party's message to dangerous pockets of the region, often traveling without security because she was too impatient to wait for its arrival in the morning.
A few pockets of the region, though, have already shown signs of full recovery.
Whether walking cobbled souk paths or marbled ministry halls, the future of Middle East economies is being carried everywhere in the pockets of the region's residents.
It's a different story in pricier pockets of the region, where high-end sales are climbing, all-cash offers remain common, and well-priced homes go fast.
Paule Constable's lighting creates a court of large brightness, pockets of intimacy, outer regions of menacing shadow and a recurring miasmic greyness through which funerals process and the dead occasionally wander.
From the Midwestern rust-belt to the burst housing bubbles of Nevada, California and Florida, even in small pockets of still affluent regions like Du Page County, Ill., the nation's soaring poverty rates are visibly reclaiming last century's triumphal "crabgrass frontier".
To make matters worse, the reluctance by the establishment to move against the main body of the militants - currently holed up in North Waziristan mostly, though also in pockets of other tribal regions along the Afghan border - creates room for these militants to carry out attacks without being captured and brought to justice.
Due to Nepal's diverse ethnicity and caste system, we sought to include individuals from various major ethnic groups (e.g. Newar, Brahmin, Gurung, and Tharu) living in distinct pockets of three developmental regions where the hospitals are located.
