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...Hurricane Katrina, fewer than one in five (16%) said they are personally "very well" prepared for a natural disaster or public emergency. Of the rest, about half explained their lack of preparation by claiming they don't live in an area at risk for disasters. Even among Gulf Coast residents, a mind-boggling 43% said they don?t face much risk...
...polled said that Hurricane Katrina had motivated them to make some preparations in the past year. And that?s a good thing, since more than half disapprove of the job that federal and local governments have done to help in the recovery from Katrina. Ironically, those in the Gulf Coast states - who should be most disappointed of all - show slightly higher approval for the job government has done at all levels and have greater confidence that the government could handle a major disaster...
...reach European shores. And with tragic predictablity, the lovely waters have turned lethal. Officials fear that as many as 60 people perished in the open sea near the rocky island over the weekend in two successive wrecks of rickety, overloaded fishing boats that had set off from the Libyan coast...
SCARRED STILL DESOLATE This section of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward is a mix of demolished houses and those still awaiting bulldozers. Hurricane Katrina destroyed some 353,000 homes in the Gulf Coast region, casting a diaspora of exiles across the country. More than 113,000 families still live in trailers provided by FEMA...
...when Marathon Oil decided in 2002 to expand its natural-gas operations to Bioko (pop. 250,000), just off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, company managers focused their attention on the region's crippling malaria rate. Marathon concluded that protecting only its employees and contractors wouldn't be enough. Because mosquitoes will bite anybody and Marathon expects the island facility to be productive for 40 years or more, the company adopted a more ambitious goal: it is working with its business partner Noble Energy, nonprofit organizations and the Equatoguinean government to stop transmission of the disease on the island within...