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...postscripts (like The Tales of Beedle the Bard, due out in December), and Scholastic is getting ready for its first major post-Harry Potter launch, a new series called The 39 Clues. But things will work a little differently this time. The rules in the magical land of young-adult publishing have changed. The 39 Clues isn't the second coming of Harry Potter. There won't be one. Harry Potter and the Death of the Author...
...prices there are often in the $230,000 to $260,000 range - well above the $140,000 to $170,000 similar properties commanded before Katrina. Kammer's selling points include the fact that towns like Picayune and Poplarville, about 50 miles east of New Orleans, are on rolling land - he is hesitant to call it "hills" - about 35 feet above sea level. "Come on up," he's telling prospective buyers pushing for appointments today and tomorrow. Some Louisianans, like New Orleans' Dabon, are looking even farther. "If I could take New Orleans and put it around Montana, I would...
...took one of John McCain's biggest weaknesses among Republicans and turned it into a strength. The conservative Christian leader Richard Land has said that what makes the base of the party so uncomfortable with McCain is not so much his unorthodoxy as his sheer unpredictability. They're never sure what he'll do next. But along comes Palin, McCain's wildest move yet - the Top Gun fighter jock, alone in his jet, throwing the stick hard over just to see what might happen - and she turns out to be everything the base could dream of. For at least...
...once provided natural hurricane protection. The lesson of Gustav, in other words, is that the lessons of Katrina still apply. "Coastal restoration is one of those things politicians say, like 'I owe it all to my lovely wife,'" says Tulane law professor Oliver Houck, who has been warning about land losses for decades. "Meanwhile, we keep building up the coast, no matter how many times we get hit in the chin. At some point the American public is going to stop paying for chin surgery...
...already $1 billion worth of small projects on the books to start that process, but restoration work is moving much, much more slowly than levee work, and scientists have estimated that it could cost more than $20 billion to make a serious dent in addressing the coast's land losses. "I'm not worried about money; this country has the wealth and the capacity to do amazing things," says Davis, the former head of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana. "The resource that keeps me up at night is time. We lucked out with Gustav. But there may be fewer...