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Have no doubt: those places will be rebuilt, although the effort needed for such smaller cities as Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., may be different from the kind required for New Orleans, with its sizable downtown and wide metropolitan area. There are times a city suffers a disaster so enormous that it never recovers. Think of Pompeii. Or Chernobyl. But cities tend to be durable things. They eventually shake off the effects of even the worst catastrophes. A decade after the Great Fire of 1871, Chicago had a booming economy and a population of half a million people, up from about...
...have some svelte friends who could learn a lot from your article. Unfortunately, they are all downtown drinking and chain-smoking. Meanwhile, I am enjoying a quiet evening at home with TIME, resting up from 70 km of cycling on the weekend. I may wear larger-size clothes than some, but my blood pressure and cholesterol levels are low. We need much more reporting on the issue of health, as opposed to thinness. Stacey Paul Chicago...
...next morning I bolted out of bed for a 30-min. walk. I had not done that for months. Thanks! Gail Kaplan Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. I have some svelte friends who could learn a lot from your article "Can You Be Fat & Healthy?" Unfortunately, they are all downtown drinking and chain smoking. Meanwhile, I am enjoying a quiet evening at home with Time, resting up from 70 km of cycling on the weekend. I may wear larger-size clothes than some, but my blood pressure and cholesterol levels are low. We need much more reporting on the issue...
...over whatever drugs they had. Hijackers shot the tires of fleeing vehicles, slapped the spares on after the owners escaped and drove the cars away themselves. Some police officers battled the looters; others joined them. As the floodwaters rose, EMS technicians told TIME they were left stranded at the downtown Hampton Inn by panicking cops who jumped into their private cars to flee the city. In the wretched Superdome, where several people died before they could get out, a young violinist took out his instrument and played a Bach adagio. "These people have nothing," he told a Los Angeles Times...
...third-floor office suite in downtown Washington, Wal-Mart staff members are planning a public-opinion counteroffensive. The retailer, once focused only on keeping its shelves stocked and its prices low, is doubling the size of its Washington lobbying operation. It is touting its charitable deeds, backed by a national advertising campaign and a website called walmartfacts.com Why? Because across town, a group of twentysomething activists working for a union-backed organization called Wake-Up Wal-Mart is preparing attacks on the corporate giant's reputation. In the group's office, littered with handwritten signs like THEY PROFIT...