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...hottest store in retailing isf Bass Pro Shops; the second hottest is its rival, Cabela's. Cities from Buffalo, N.Y., to Broken Arrow, Okla., are throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at those outfits for the privilege of getting one of their megastores. The stores are so popular, they drive economic development...
...Katrina's fury, but nature itself seems mortally wounded as well. The 30-mile strip of houses, farms and schools has been transformed into a sump filled with fetid water. Groves of orange trees lie half submerged near Triumph. In Empire, almost 1 million gallons of oil have broken out of a giant Chevron storage tank, coating the levees and seeping into the marshland. A herd of cows staggers ankle deep through greasy waters in Venice. A few miles north, horses graze amid dead fish and the hulks of beached shrimp trawlers...
...destroyed their support structure." Yet many U.S. officers are worried that as soon as the U.S. forces return to their bases, the Taliban fighters will reclaim the mountains and villages. Few Afghans want the Taliban to return to power, but ancient tribal ties are not so easily broken among the Pashtun who are the Taliban's supporters...
...hurricane as strong as Katrina. For decades, our local and state officials have fought for funding to rebuild the eroding coasts and levees. Although I know that my immediate family and friends are safe, my family has lost all its material possessions. I am sad and angry but not broken. I am alive. I am one of the fortunate ones. But what about my neighbors? Robin Rocque San Diego...
Make no mistake about it: Hurricane Katrina didn't destroy New Orleans; the breaches in the levees did. Maybe it's time the U.S. government spent its money on what is broken in our own country rather than trying to fix things in other nations far away...