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...With the hurricane season just gaining momentum, he worries about the next storm. Environmental groups recently issued a report urging Congress to pass new legislation to restore the disappearing wetlands. "Unless Louisiana's losses are reversed, the communities of Louisiana cannot survive," said Carlton Dufrechou, executive director of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation...
...until his death?to Virgin's new reggae label, Front Line. DIED. Ed Thrasher, 74, influential Warner Bros. Records designer who conceived some of rock's most definitive LP covers, including Jimi Hendrix's visually trippy Are You Experienced and Joni Mitchell's Clouds; of cancer; in Big Bear Lake, California. Among his fans, the easygoing art director counted high-profile artists, including Frank Sinatra, who let Thrasher title his 1973 comeback LP, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. DIED. Bismillah Khan, 90, ascetic Indian musician whose name became synonymous with the shehnai, the oboe-like instrument he played for audiences...
...Like many of their fellow musicians their homes were temples to their art, filled with tapes and CDs, musical notes and instruments, many cherished after years of restoration and loving care. When word came that Katrina was heading to the city, White said he went to the shores of Lake Pontchatrain. "I spiritually communed with the lake and asked it what should I do and it said, you had better run," White said...
...swing through western Kenya, a mostly rural area along the shores of Lake Victoria, Obama and his wife, Michelle, were both tested for HIV, a powerful statement in a country whose leaders often talk about the need for regular testing but rarely lead the way. "You need to know your status," Obama told a surging crowd of hundreds of locals. "If a U.S. Senator can get tested and his wife can get tested, then everybody in this crowd can get tested. Everybody in this city can get tested." "It is good he did this, it shows people how important...
Larry Hayes drove from New Orleans to Atlanta three days before Katrina hit to stay with relatives, learning later that his Gentilly neighborhood home - situated between the London Avenue Canal and Lake Pontchartrain - was destroyed. A licensed social worker, Hayes found that his clients and livelihood were gone too, so he began showing his resume around Atlanta, and today is the Fulton County Supervisor for Project Hope, a FEMA-funded mental health program within the Georgia Department of Human Resources, where Hayes now numbers fellow Katrina evacuees among his clients. "I'm going to stay in Atlanta," he says...