Word: explainer
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...hope that our story is a warning to Congress, the Corps and the leaders of New Orleans that business as usual is just not acceptable. In fact, I believe that in this unique presidential campaign, voters should demand that candidates of both parties explain what they would do to protect New Orleans from the next Katrina. To that end, TIME is going to work with the city of New Orleans to sponsor a presidential debate there about the city's future...
Researchers believe that the study’s results help explain a dramatic increase in obesity within the past 30 years, according to study co-author James H. Fowler...
Happily, that isn't yet the case. For while the study can explain some friendships--the cast of The Facts of Life, for instance, or the together-through-thin-and-thinner bond of Paris & Nicole--it doesn't account for so many of history's finest partnerships: Laurel & Hardy, Skipper & Gilligan, Abbott & Costello, Siskel & Ebert, and those most enduring of all buddies, Ernie & Bert...
...explain this week in TIME, Hurricane Katrina was a manmade disaster, attributable almost entirely to the Corps. It should have been a teachable moment. But in Congress there's still rabid bipartisan support for the status quo - as long as all 535 members can bring home their pet water projects. President Bush has not usually distinguished himself as a tightwad, but when it comes to the Corps - an agency he doesn't control as much as he'd like - his budgets have been consistently stingy...
...abandoning Louisiana. It's true that the bill includes some projects to help restore Louisiana's vanishing coastal marshes and cypress swamps, which provide natural protection for New Orleans. (It's also true that Vitter had pushed to help timber firms to log those cypress swamps.) But as I explain in TIMR, the bill's main Louisiana project - a 72-mile levee for some bayou towns - is a giant step in the wrong direction, accelerating the wetlands losses that left New Orleans exposed to Katrina...