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...survive, as salt water intrudes deeper and deeper inland, killing vegetation that helps hold the soil together. The elimination of natural flooding also causes barrier islands, which line the Gulf and protect the coast, to shrink. The Mississippi in its naturally flowing state spilled silt into an intricate delta, spreading sediment east and west and fortifying the islands. Walled and dredged all the way to the Gulf, the river now dumps that silt right over the edge of the continental shelf. Geologists report that the Chandeleur Islands--a healthy necklace of sandy barriers about 70 miles from New Orleans--appeared...
Gass started his experiments by running a small electrical charge through the blade of his Delta power saw. Whenever the blade was touched, the body would absorb some of the charge like a circuit breaker and immediately trigger the brake. He built a prototype, videotaped the demonstration and tried to license his invention to power-tool manufacturers like Delta. "One company said, 'We decided not to pursue this because the marketing guys say safety doesn't sell,'" he recalls...
...will be surprised at how many of them have gleefully globetrotted, proclaiming their status as a “cosmopolitan scholar,” while never having set foot beyond the coastal enclaves of the United States. Over spring break, I did Harvard Habitat for Humanity in the Mississippi Delta, not for Katrina relief, but for people who are simply poor. It would have been an amazing experience for East and West Coast liberals to actually see the people they claim to champion. This is especially true for those in leadership positions (largely filled by men) at various political organizations...
...feel like helping out once you get that Morgan Stanley job thanks to your Harvard diploma? The surge in alumni, parent, and graduate giving would offset a large portion of the program’s long-term cost, and this virtuous cycle could even fund free graduate education. Delta Airlines’ new slogan would be believable: “good goes around...
...biggest basin lies well east of the Bay, in the broad delta formed by the convergence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. Among the most catastrophic consequences of a big earthquake in the Bay Area, says University of California at Davis geologist Jeffrey Mount, would be the failure of the delta's aging levee system, which protects not just farmland and residential areas but also the water supply for some 23 million people. Shaken hard enough, the foundations of the levees would crumple, and in a kind of hydrological chain reaction, brackish water from the Bay would surge inland...