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...tend to be the ones left standing after a 120 m.p.h. wind rips through. We know that for every dollar spent on that kind of basic mitigation, society saves an average of $4, according to a 2005 report by the nonprofit National Institute of Building Sciences. Then there's Mississippi, which, believe it or not, still has no statewide building code. Katrina destroyed 68,729 houses there. But this year a proposed mandatory code, opposed by many builders, real estate lobbyists and homeowners, ended up voluntary...
...materials from different polling stations mixed together, often in the back of trucks, and some voting tallies altered. Lobby group Human Rights Watch says that foreign observers in the east of Congo, a nation that sprawls across central Africa and is as big as the U.S. east of the Mississippi, were also being hindered in their work...
...regimen was at times both “tough” and “brutal,” as Random House urged him to finish the book in time for the one-year anniversary of Katrina.Horne says he spent most of January “holed up in Mississippi in a little cabin” writing, even as his deadline was moved up when other books on Katrina started to appear in bookstores.And there were many other books, including Douglas Brinkley’s “The Great Deluge,” Michael E. Dyson?...
...King of Diamonds" by the U.S. press, founder Charles Lewis Tiffany aspired to supply items for every milestone, from gold armlets for newborns to onyx mourning crosses to remember the American Civil War dead. Tiffany's designers often worked with such U.S.-sourced gems as Montana sapphires and Mississippi River pearls, and favored American naturalism over European historicism. As John Loring, design director of Tiffany's since 1979, explains, "Our unofficial motto is that Mother Nature is the best designer." From a delicate diamond-and-sapphire dragonfly hair ornament (circa 1895) to an Art Deco platinum-and-diamond necklace that...
...turned to leave, co-owner Qamar Yanes assured them the Internet would return soon. "Oh, we're not leaving because of the Internet - we just have other things to do," Aronberg told her. They were going home to pack for a road trip to an air-conditioned casino in Mississippi...