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...City in Ruin Re "Why New Orleans Still Isn't Safe" [Aug. 20]: When I moved to New Orleans as a young man in 1967, I viewed the city with fresh eyes. As I explored Canal Street, I saw three monstrous pipes on the edge of the road and heard the deep rumble from the pumping station. I recalled that New Orleans is 20 feet or so below sea level. As I looked up at the clear sunny sky, I realized that New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. If it took that amount of pumping on a sunny...
...analogous to putting a person on the moon. It should be orchestrated by an independent civilian agency composed of experts from industry and academia, representing all the branches of science and engineering from which expertise is required. That agency would not build a wall or a levee or a canal but rather an ecosystem compatible with nature, mankind, the arts and industry unique to this great spot on our planet. Michael G. Youngblood, Baton Rouge...
...Orleans still isn't safe" [Aug. 20]: When I moved to New Orleans as a young man in 1967, I viewed the city with fresh eyes. As I explored Canal Street, I saw three monstrous pipes on the edge of the road and heard the deep rumble from the pumping station. I recalled that New Orleans is 20 feet (6 meters) or so below sea level. As I looked up at the clear sunny sky, I realized that New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. If it took that amount of pumping on a sunny day to keep...
...Marshall Islands; its semi-submersible converted oil rig platform was designed in Norway. The two parts were assembled in Texas, its 50,000 tons hoisted onto a ship, and sailed 15,000 miles around the tip of South America (it was too big to use the Panama Canal), arriving in Pearl Harbor in January 2006. Its ultimate destination is the more challenging waters of Adak, a farflung outpost in Alaska's Aleutian island chain, famous for terrible weather and 100-foot waves. The MDA claims the SBX is powerful enough to spot a flying baseball in San Francisco from...
...five works stand out is not only the fascinating fingerprint of one of the 20th century's most influential collectors but the almost unbelievable logistics of bringing the works (conservatively valued at $15.3 million) by crane, boat, truck and plane from the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal...