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While residents call their fight a David-vs.-Goliath battle, the village may soon be forced to pocket its slingshot. Last month a county judge dissolved an injunction that had prevented Chicago from razing the acquisition area until the environmental impact could be measured. Unless an appeals court steps in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: A Suburb Hopes for One More Delay at O'Hare | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

That may be true, but it is sort of like boasting that Richard Simmons has never been more intimidating. The Corps has yet to address the city's two most vulnerable points: the Gulf Outlet, a storm-surge shotgun pointed at the city's gut; and a "funnel" at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gustav's Lessons for New Orleans | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

Perhaps, but the Corps has yet to address the city's two biggest vulnerabilities: the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a little-used Corps navigation channel that carried Katrina's surge into the city, and a "funnel" near the entrance to the Industrial Canal, another little-used Corps channel. The Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Louisiana Take Gustav's Punch? | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

The death toll from the war and its aftermath has yet to be determined - making allegations of genocide impossible to investigate. No mass graves, for example, have yet to be discovered. Russia has said that Georgian government troops and militia had begun ethnic cleansing when they tried to retake the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ethnic Toll in Georgia | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

All morning in the village of Kersa, the hills have echoed with the wails of women walking in from the fields. They gather on a patch of open grass before a stretcher made from freshly cut bamboo, bound and laid with banana leaves. On it is a small bundle wrapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Among the Starving in Ethiopia | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

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