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...survive such storms, early residents quickly learned that they would have to build carefully, particularly in low-lying New Orleans. Eighteenth century settlers established the famed French Quarter on some of the highest ground they could find, one of the reasons it remained relatively dry last week. As the Gulf, the lake and the river periodically overflowed, the growing city retreated behind an ever expanding web of soil, concrete and metal levees. Today there are 350 miles of those barricades snaking through the city and 22 massive pumping stations that are supposed to kick into action whenever the water sloshes...
...Gulf's busy oil-and-gas industry doesn't help matters. Extracting those resources below the Gulf floor is like sticking a straw into the ground and sucking out all the liquid: ultimately you pull up the very material that's holding up the surrounding terrain. One study found that the greatest loss of Gulf wetlands coincided with the greatest extraction of oil and gas in the 1970s and '80s. Houston is thought to be sinking for much the same reason...
...Under this system, the holes in the top-floor rooms are sealed first, and workers move down the building slowly, sending the mice to the ground floor...
...think of creative solutions to some of these problems and to experiment with them.” Since its founding in 1994, DRCLAS has flourished under Coatsworth’s leadership, joining together Harvard faculty and students with common interests in Latin America and also facilitating connections on the ground in the region. According to Coatsworth, one of DRCLAS’s two important achievements is “consolidating itself as a major presence on Harvard’s campus—it now has programs that promote teaching and research on Latin America that reach every part...
...Garvey said that after he pushed Velissaris, Lane pushed him to the ground. He said Lane was then escorted by his teammates into Currier, while three other football players pinned Garvey against the bike rack on the front of his shuttle...