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...Despite cons such as poor customer service and slow initial upload, online backup still protects your data better than something in your home because it's in a secure, off-site environment, safe from theft, fire, flood and other mishaps," Nagel said...
...they will be able to apply what they have learned from studying gene therapies for rare diseases to the treatment of more common ailments like epilepsy, arthritis and congestive heart failure. "[Gene therapy] still needs one killer app. One clear, unambiguous success," says Greely. "And then the money will flood...
...that's not why the Corps lost this case. The plaintiffs could not sue the Corps for botching flood protection, because Congress gave it "sovereign immunity" to protect its flood-protection projects from that sort of lawsuit. So the suit focused on a canal called the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a classic Army Corps navigation boondoggle that was designed as a shortcut for ships to the Port of New Orleans - although ships rarely use it - and ended up instead as a shortcut for hurricanes. The plaintiffs argued that the so-called Mr. Go - which wasn't a flood-protection project...
...enough to overtop the most important levees. The canal has carried enough saltwater from the Gulf to destroy an estimated 100 square miles of valuable freshwater wetlands, but that's just a tiny slice of the land-loss crisis. The Corps can still make the case that adequate flood walls would have withstood the extra surge created by Mr. Go - and that the inadequacy of the flood walls is covered by sovereign immunity. In other words: Don't blame our lousy navigation project; blame our lousy flood-protection project! (See video of New Orleans's Ninth Ward...
...more important question is whether the Nov. 18 ruling will lead to the reform of the U.S.'s dysfunctional water-resources system, which consistently produces white elephants like Mr. Go - as well as a little-used $750 million navigation lock a stone's throw from the flood walls that failed during Katrina - but doesn't address the nation's water-resources problems. The Corps was spending more money in Louisiana than in any other state before Katrina, but most of it was wasted on pork projects desired by shipping interests, farming interests, oil interests and other interests that haven...