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Unfortunately, New Orleans today remains far from that ideal. Robert Bea, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and former oil-industry engineer, co-authored a landmark report for the National Science Foundation that analyzed why the Federal Government did such a poor job of protecting Louisiana before and after the storm. Most of the problems he identified persist, he says. And that is not Louisiana's problem alone, Bea emphasizes. The Army Corps of Engineers recently announced that 122 major levee systems are less than safe; those levees will face greater stresses with global warming. Extra-strong hurricanes...
...Although Bea FitzGerald, 66, first heard the call as a young woman, she pushed it aside to raise her seven children. After her husband left in 1968, she put herself through school and supported her family as a registered nurse. Once her children were grown, the call grew louder. She obtained an annulment, joined the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, based in Louisville, Ky., and, at 51, became one of the growing number of so-called Sister Moms. While widowed or divorced women with grown children have long entered religious life, Sister Moms in the U.S. are now establishing...
...that, Marco gives us a really bad premise, such as an episode in which the mother-in-law comes. We all pretend it's a good idea and spend most of the day figuring out funny stuff that our characters would do with a mother-in-law and whether Bea Arthur or Cloris Leachman would be funnier playing her. Our concepts are so bad that Marco eventually realizes what a horrible idea a mother-in-law episode would be. Then he yells, "Come on, guys, we have to get this! Focus...
...Bea Arthur...
...Still, if Katrina was the dominant news event in the minds of our panelists, then (Bea Arthur aside) it was once again left to the managing editor and his team to figure out how that fact might be commemorated on the cover of TIME magazine. And also, if there might be contenders our panelists had overlooked...