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...western edge of the Mississippi coast, where Katrina lifted the ocean up and deposited barges in the middle of neighborhoods, every police car is gone. The towns of Bay St. Louis and Waveland are all but wiped off the map. Every government building in Hancock County has been destroyed. Half of the local work force has no house to go home to. A firefighter who had recovered remains from the World Trade Center crater told me picking through the 12-foot-high piles of flotsam stacked a quarter mile inland along the Mississippi coast is like working at ground zero...
...team’s principal rookie league affiliate based in Tampa, Mann encountered a whole new ballgame. Strict measures, including 11 o’clock mandatory week-day curfews at the team hotel, made life outside of baseball nearly impossible. Only weekend afternoons by the hotel pool and bay fishing served to interrupt the daily grind of workouts and games...
...leaders greeted each other before a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, Bush dispensed handshakes, back pats and even a hug or two. But there was a visible reminder of the tensions between the United States and the world body: John R. Bolton, the biting critic of Turtle Bay bureaucracy who was installed by Bush as his U.N. ambassador during the congressional recess after the Senate did not act to confirm him, took a seat behind the president...
...told TIME's Nathan Thornburgh that his company made a run into New Orleans to pick up sacred texts from a Hindu temple and that he promptly received e-mails from India thanking him for the rescue. TIME's Kim Humphreys accompanied a team of customs agents from Tampa Bay, Fla., as well as Chicago, Dallas and San Diego on a mission to safeguard the 27-story Hibernia National Bank headquarters on Union Street. Wearing heavy camouflage uniforms, black vests and helmets, they carried Steyr-AUG rifles equipped with flashlights that allowed them to work in the dark. In stifling...
...odds are high that the nearly 750,000 people living in the city today will be pulling out those emergency kits, say researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey. The region around the San Francisco Bay is riven by faults, including the San Andreas to the west of the city and, to the east, the Hayward Fault, which geophysicists consider even more likely to rupture. Over the next 30 years, scientists estimate, the Bay Area has a greater than 60% chance of being hit by a damaging earthquake, defined as an earthquake of magnitude 6.7 or higher. And while a replay...