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Perhaps, but the Corps has yet to address the city's two biggest vulnerabilities: the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a little-used Corps navigation channel that carried Katrina's surge into the city, and a "funnel" near the entrance to the Industrial Canal, another little-used Corps channel. The Corps has said it will take $15 billion to bring the entire system up to the 100-year level, and so far it has only spent about $2 billion. "That should give you an idea of how much work there still is to do," says Garret Graves, who oversees coastal protection...
Walk along Amsterdam's inner canals and you retrace the steps of centuries of sailors whose ships docked here after months at sea. These narrow paths long marked the water's edge, and they have drawn prostitutes since the 1400s. Many of them raised children upstairs in the canal houses and plied their trade below, much as did the neighborhood's butchers and bakers. While those old houses have been painstakingly preserved, little else remains the same. Many prostitutes (some of them men) still show off their bodies in about 400 display windows, wearing sliver-sized underwear and heavy makeup...
...what value to place on a stint of "organizing." But it was surely real work. Reading Obama's account of his efforts to organize the residents in a single Chicago neighborhood, with weeks of toil going into staging a single meeting, is like watching a man dig the Panama Canal with a Swiss Army knife...
Take, for example, the case of a prolapsed umbilical cord. In roughly 1 out of every 300 births, the cord slips down into the birth canal before the baby does and risks cutting off the baby's oxygen supply. Kitty Ernst, an expert on midwifery at the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in Hyden, Ky., says midwives are trained to push the baby's head back up off the cord and hold it there--the same way an obstetric nurse would--and get Mom to the hospital as an operating room is being prepared for her. "Your hand...
...order to listen as loud as you want, you need to be careful about how long you're listening. I would also strongly recommend that people invest in better earphones that block out background noise. Some of the research we did studied earphones that completely seal up the ear canal. These are passive sound-isolating earphones, as opposed to the ones that are active noise cancelers that block out some of the noise. As far as I can tell, both would allow people to listen to their headphones at their chosen level - and more likely at a lower volume than...