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Sophomore Liam O’Hagan had the chance to play Division I-A ball. A standout two-way athlete from the Breck School in Minnesota, he was recruited as a safety by Boston College, Colorado, Minnesota, and Vanderbilt...
...Crockett ’02, the former Ivy League pitcher of the year for Harvard, is now approximately 70 miles from the big leagues. The former third-rounder had a rough first start for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, yielding three runs in three and two-thirds innings for the Colorado Rockies’ Class AAA affiliate. He earned a promotion with a solid 4.00 ERA at Class AA Tulsa, mostly in relief...
...strengthening the levees, but some experts in the field see that as a losing proposition in the long term. "Americans' disposition to buy a technological fix is why disasters are getting larger and larger," says Dennis Mileti, director emeritus of the natural-hazards center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "Although everything we do helps reduce losses, when a big one comes that exceeds what our technology was designed for, the damage is [catastrophic]. It ends up putting more people at greater risk in Miami, San Francisco, all the cities we love...
Whatever happened, the neglect of the levees was part of a larger trend after 9/11. "We put natural hazards on the back burner," says Dennis Mileti, a veteran disaster researcher who for 10 years ran the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder. "We diverted our attention to terrorism. I'm not saying that shift was bad. We had no plans in place for terrorism. But the laws of nature were not repealed on Sept...
...live in tents,'" van Heerden recalls. "I said to her, people will kiss your shoes for a tent in the end." It was also worrying that the new head, Michael Brown, would report not to the President but to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff. Like Chertoff, Brown, a Colorado attorney, had no emergency-management experience...