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...colleagues report the research in a paper published online Wednesday by the journal Nature...
...city where I was born and raised is still waiting for rescue. Three years ago this week, in the wake of the Katrina disaster, I returned there as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. What I saw upon arriving was a city that looked more like a Brazilian favela than one of America's most crucial ports. Riding through the streets on the back of a boat steered by a pair of shotgun-toting sheriff's deputies from Indiana, I saw colorless bodies bobbing in the water, often tethered to light posts. Water covered the top of the doors...
...quarters of New Orleans' pre-storm population has returned since Katrina. Yet, in large swaths of the city, the fundamentals of community - schools, police stations, hospitals - have yet to be rebuilt. And don't get me started on grocery stores. When I went back to New Orleans for the Journal it was to explore a story on the paradoxical opportunity that Katrina, having wiped out so much of the city, could actually give New Orleanians a chance to escape poverty in a rebuilt city. Well, that opportunity, if it ever existed, has passed...
...toughest aspect of writing a speech isn't so much the rhetoric, it's the ideas-which take time to incubate and develop, says Andrei Cherny, editor of the journal Democracy and a former White House speechwriter under Clinton. "The hardest part about writing a speech like this is not the mechanics of it but what you want to say and how you're going to say it, the strategy of it," Cherny says. For a speech of this magnitude it's not uncommon for politicians and their staffs to work on language for months, going into double-digit drafts...
...monthly bank statements," Rove says when asked. But a knowledgeable industry source says he gets $50,000 a pop for the two to three speaking engagements he does every week. By several accounts his book deal with Simon and Schuster brought in a seven-figure advance. The Wall Street Journal declined to discuss his employment, and John Moody, his boss at Fox News, says only, "Karl brings a lot of special skills and we recognized that...