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Crawford was rushed to the emergency room of a nearby hospital at the time of the accident, having suffered irreparable brain damage from blood loss at the scene of the collision...
...really capable communicator, so I can imagine she was a great teacher," Gfaller said. "It's a terrible loss, and she was certainly primed to make a significant impact in her field. I can imagine she may have already made one, knowing the kind of work she did as an undergraduate...
...city for doing business before the storm. People were always dribbling out," says Peter Ricchiuti, a professor of economics at Tulane University. While many of the companies that made it through the storm could stand to benefit from the city's recovery, he says, Katrina may have hastened the loss of high-paying energy jobs. "We're losing the white-collar jobs and keeping the blue-collar jobs," he says. "We're becoming much more of a blue-collar oil industry...
Whether it will be sufficient - or happen quickly enough - to staunch the loss of high-paying jobs is a serious question. "As painful as all of this has been, you've had changes, really positive, powerful changes, that never in a million years would have happened without this disaster," Ricchiuti says. And despite lingering problems, there are many residents who are willing to tough it out, and hope businesses - and city officials - will follow their example...
...Maori culture, always wear blue, salute each other with a clenched fist and like to cry "Yo, f___in' yo!" Researchers believe the gangs were formed when Maori people moved into cities, away from their village culture. "Groups of young men founded gangs as a replacement for the loss of family and purpose that traditional life provided," says sociologist Gilbert, who is writing a Ph.D. thesis on the gangs. Members are quick to agree. "I identified with the people in the gang, who were good people when I joined. I enjoyed the prestige that came with it," says Te Kotahi...