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...wasn't until June that President George W. Bush signed the fourth hurricane appropriation bill giving U.S. Fish & Wildlife $132 million to clean up hazardous material. The delay will end up costing taxpayers more money - because the same cleanup crews that worked last fall have to return to Louisiana and start again. In the year since Rita, the debris has sunk deep into the marsh, making hazardous materials more difficult to find and retrieve. Plus, labels have peeled off containers, so no one knows exactly what they have contained, or how much they have already leaked. No one knows...
...wetlands have to be preserved, because they slow down the storm and decrease the storm surge. "The wetlands protect the levees, and the levees protect the people," says Dale Hall Director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife services. He points out that for every 2.7 miles a hurricane travels across a marsh, the storm surge is reduced by one foot. "We have to focus on rebuilding those wetlands for the future - or it's going to get even worse as storms come in," Hall says...
DIED. Bubba, 24, 154-lb. "super grouper" at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium who in 2002, after cancer was diagnosed, became the first known fish to receive chemotherapy, inspiring and energizing children afflicted with cancer nationwide; of various conditions and old age; in Chicago...
...century corporate fraud--Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling of Enron, Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom, Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz of Tyco--are convicted and, in Lay's case, dead. Even Martha Stewart has served time. And many, if not most, of the cases the feds brought against smaller fish--to help assuage a share-owning public that had been scammed by phony accounting and overhyped stock--are resolved. The government claims that since mid-2002 it has won more than 1,000 corporate-fraud convictions, including those of more than 100 CEOs and presidents...
...unlike the undulating landscapes of more familiar parts of Tuscany. There isn't much to tempt travelers to break their journeys; no major art galleries or unmissable architecture, just some Etruscan ruins, a pretty coastal village called Castiglione della Pescaia where locals reel in coach tours as plentifully as fish, and the resistable charms of the city of Grosseto. But one traveler was seduced into stopping and putting down new roots in the sandy soil nearby. Alain Ducasse, the first chef ever to win three Michelin stars for two restaurants simultaneously, followed an avenue of cypress and Tuscan pines through...