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...Nagin predicted that New Orleans and its environs would see 10,000 dead. But by Saturday fewer than 200 bodies had been found, leading retired U.S.M.C. Colonel Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland-security director, to declare that "the numbers so far are relatively minor compared to the dire predictions" of Nagin and others. Ebbert says it will take authorities two weeks to make a reliable estimate of the casualties, and the precise figure will take longer. Minyard says identifying each and every corpse may take as long as five years...
...case with every hurricane, not everybody would be leaving. In truth, few U.S. cities have good plans for taking out the sick, the elderly and those without cars of their own. The situation in New Orleans, though, was particularly dire. Officials knew that the least mobile residents lived in the most flood-prone part of town. But they had no solution. "When I asked that question, I got a lot of unsure looks," says Brian Wolshon, an engineer with the L.S.U. team who helped design the evacuation plans with state police and transportation officials...
...stated, "Here's why American soldiers keep dying" [Aug. 15]. U.S. troops are dying for the same reason that so many were killed in Vietnam: they are where they have no reason to be. After the U.S. left Vietnam to the North Vietnamese, what happened? Is Vietnam in dire straits today without America to back it? No, it's expanding economically. Leave Iraq to the Iraqis, and get out. That nation will set itself right more easily without the U.S. tipping the balance. You wanted to oust Saddam Hussein. You did. Now leave. Arunachalam Ashokan Quilon, India As a former...
...crisis in Niger, 600 miles west of Sudan, has captured the attention of media and aid groups, which warn of a possible famine. But several other African nations face conditions that are just as dire. A guide to the facts behind the images...
...carb wine and chastely munching on low-carb Doritos, because I have suffered through their unrequested speeches about ketosis that don't make any sense. You know what happens "on a cellular level" when you eat that junk? You get a lot more cells. It had got so dire that I had taken to eating carbs at restaurants as a punk gesture of rebellion, dipping mashed-potato sandwiches in granulated sugar and inventing something I call Cake-Ravioli Cereal, which, if I can ever figure out how to get it on a stick, will undoubtedly be a huge...