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...tour of the city's earthen and floodwall defenses last week, Van Heerden said levee problems could endanger areas that were not flooded after Katrina, including the west bank of the Mississippi and the western suburbs of New Orleans, most notably near the airport, an area crucial to every evacuation plan...
...101° heat, FBI agents swarmed over an earthen dam on Olen Barrage's Old Jolly Farm, six miles southwest of Philadelphia, Miss. Through the scrub pines and bitterweed, they bulldozed a path to the dam, then brought up a lumbering dragline whose huge bucket shovel began chewing a V-shaped wedge out of the 25-ft.-high levee. Twenty feet down, the shovel uncovered the fully clothed, badly decomposed bodies of three young men, lying side by side in a pocket of red clay. They had been dumped there while the dam was still being built, and in the weeks...
...days later, their burned-out station wagon was found. On Aug. 4, FBI men, acting on a tip, dug a single hole in a new earthen dam on Old Jolly Farm six miles from Philadelphia and uncovered the three bodies. Each man had been shot to death with a .38-caliber weapon; Chaney had been beaten so horribly that a pathologist who performed an autopsy said he had never seen such injuries except in a highspeed auto accident or a plane crash...
...find their own Shangri-La. Chances are they'll do a better job than Hilton, who never went to China, or Tibet for that matter. Our pick of Zhongdian's hot spots: THE COW BAR Located behind a temple, the Cow Bar, tel: (86-887) 828 8774, comes with earthen walls, a pool table and plenty of quirks (there's a mannequin's hand poking through the ceiling, for one). Everyone seems to pass through - even the county chief has dropped in for a beer and a game of pool. THE RAVEN With jazz and coffee in the afternoons...
...Located behind a temple, the Cow Bar, tel: (86-887) 828 8774, comes with earthen walls, a pool table and plenty of quirks (there's a mannequin's hand poking through the ceiling, for one). Everyone seems to pass through-even the county chief has dropped in for a beer and a game of pool...