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...Orleans, it's heartening to see nature seemingly unbowed by hurricanes. But even though the waterway is alive and well, the cypress swamps that line it are clearly dead. The 100-year-old trees stand naked and decayed, their bark stripped by the wind. The hurricanes are not the culprit. The trees have been dead for a decade or more, victims of man-made canals that carry brackish water from Lake Pontchartrain, poisoning the cypress. Biologists call this a ghost swamp, one of many throughout the delta. When Katrina's winds howled in from the lake, the thinned forest around...
...H5N1. With this head start, the company would be capable of producing enough vaccine to inoculate every Australian in a minimum of three months from the time a pandemic started and the exact strain was identified. If a pandemic does break out, authorities would hope that H5N1 was the culprit, since CSL's project is to some extent based on that premise. "This is a good scientific gamble," says Horvath, "but if it's (a different strain) . . . well, it's a bit like buying a battleship that you don't ever fire a gun from. If the eventual pandemic...
...China is not the only culprit, of course. Nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam all have thriving underground markets in wildlife products. And dealers from America and Europe travel the region to stock up on snakes, geckos, flying lizards and other exotic pets. But the sheer scale of demand from China makes everything else pale into insignificance. Up to 80% of the illegal wildlife smuggled out of Southeast Asia is headed for China, says Steve Galster, who heads WildAid's Bangkok office. Illegal traders have had to adapt to the changed marketplace. "I had to take a crash course...
...water overtopped the levees, as the Corps claims. Congressional investigators, experts and even some Corps officers tell TIME that the failure might have been caused by leaks in the barriers. "The storm surge was only about 10 to 12 feet, according to our modeling, so overtopping was not the culprit," says Leatherman. If the levees failed because they overflowed, that means the storm was just too fierce. If there were leaks, however, that might mean the levees had been poorly constructed or maintained...
...Prize was awarded to him for his contribution to welfare economics. His body of work is diverse, but he is best known for challenging the conventional wisdom that famine is caused by a shortage of food. Sen pointed out that famine-struck areas often had enough food; the real culprit was a disturbance in the economic system?for instance, a sudden rise in prices?which made the food inaccessible. In his new book, Sen directs his iconoclastic zeal on the perception of India?held by many abroad, and also within the country?as a place with only one kind...