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...tiny town of St. Gabriel, to the northwest of New Orleans. Fearing the worst, Nagin ordered 25,000 body bags. By then, most of the 1.3 million who lived in New Orleans and its suburbs had been bused or airlifted out. But a week after the levees broke, at least 10,000 were believed to be still in the city--some determined to stick it out, others inaccessible to rescuers. Health officials tested and found E. coli bacteria in the floodwaters, raising fears that diarrhea could spread. Fires set off by broken gas mains raged untamed, and hooligans controlled some...
...brand the process, you should get used to it. Republicans in Congress have announced a joint inquiry with Democrats. But the Democrats are refusing to cooperate because they want an independent commission. No matter how the reckoning goes, TIME's investigation reveals at least four places where the system broke down...
...long? It's best to answer this question by traveling to the city with the Army Corps of Engineers, the people the Federal Government calls when it wants to build something big. Some 1,580 Corps workers have come to the Gulf to fix what Katrina broke; it's the agency's biggest disaster response ever. During a visit to the New Orleans lakefront Thursday, the Vice President asserted after a short tour that "we're making significant progress." The engineers on the ground, those who work in the dross and stench every day, agree, but they also privately...
...broke the bonds...
...case that broke open last week was only the first chapter in an extensive clampdown on drug dealing in the financial community. Authorities initially picked up the trail in Brooklyn, where they took notice of a mink- coated brunet named Theresa Masi. A known consort of drug dealers with Mafia connections, Masi made regular rounds of Wall Street executive suites. Authorities learned that Masi was delivering cocaine weekly to five top-level * managers. Under a law-enforcement policy to charge dealers only, those users were never prosecuted, but their descriptions of drug consumption on Wall Street inspired the U.S. Drug...