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...solution of oil, feces, battery acid, human and animal rot, burst containers of bug spray and paint thinner and nail polish and antifreeze. The primary sensory experience of New Orleans now is the smell, a gagging foulness of the charnel, of the hundreds of bloated fish pooled in the 17th Street Canal and a million other nasty things floating everywhere. The masterless dogs are so hungry and delirious in the 92° heat that they drink this mix, at least a lap or two, and then stagger away. The city smells dead, and although the French Quarter and a few other...
...night, mostly on the floor of the Corps' New Orleans office, which has reeking bathrooms and no running water. Rather, the simple immensity of the task has astonished even the most experienced Corps engineers. When Colonel Richard Wagenaar, the Corps' New Orleans commander, first tried to approach the flooded 17th Street Canal as the storm was subsiding, he couldn't get within half a mile of it because of all the water and downed electrical lines...
...eighth year, with five years still to go. All the wall lunettes and three of the nine Old Testament scenes on the ceiling are finished, freed of 478 years of accumulated grime, crude repaints and successive coats of darkened glue size applied as a varnish by 17th and 18th century restorers. A quite different Michelangelo, one whose intensity and beauty of color matches his long-acknowledged grandeur as draftsman and iconographer, emerges. The vault of the Sistine is now the domain of light...
...braced for the worst, then briefly exhaled when it looked as if the threat had passed. Several hours after the storm moved through on Monday, some streets were essentially dry. Then shortly after midnight, a section almost as long as a football field in a main levee near the 17th Street Canal ruptured, letting Lake Pontchartrain pour in. The city itself turned into a superbowl, roadways crumbled like soup crackers as the levees designed to protect them were now holding the water in. Engineers tried dropping 3,000-lb. sandbags, but the water just swallowed them. As the days passed...
...even ancient Rome had its shamuses. Falco wisecracks his way through the empire's sleazy underside to provide amusing lessons on the way crime, greed and cover-ups were endemic even in 70 B.C. In the 17th Falco novel, See Delphi and Die, the Eternal City's original tough guy takes on the tourist industry. (Rome invented that too.) Davis' crimes are wickedly convoluted, but Falco's facetious tongue and domestic complications are the real...