Word: mississippis
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...south Plaquemines Parish, a sinuous ribbon of land between the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, not only were all the towns lost to Katrina's fury, but nature itself seems mortally wounded as well. The 30-mile strip of houses, farms and schools has been transformed into a sump filled with fetid water. Groves of orange trees lie half submerged near Triumph. In Empire, almost 1 million gallons of oil have broken out of a giant Chevron storage tank, coating the levees and seeping into the marshland. A herd of cows staggers ankle deep through greasy waters...
...First Lady Laura Bush is going to guest-star on a special edition of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. She'll be helping rebuild a shelter in Biloxi, Mississippi, and applying oils to [host] Ty Pennington's chest...
...sometimes took him a while to break out of his UC zone this summer, but in between organizing the fall concert and working on electronic registration, Matt Glazer found time for himself. In Louisiana, he stripped to his boxers on a populated street on the side of the Mississippi River, screaming that he was being attacked by ants (which was true: they crawled over him with the purpose of an army). In New Orleans, he tried to beat a pool shark at his own game. And in Nashville, he let his Blackberry sit in his pocket while he focused...
...maps of the city were skewed so drivers could make sense of the streets, which did not run east-west or north-south but toward or away from the Mississippi River, which wrapped around the southeast corner of the city...
...neighborhood’s bright blue archway—Fountainebleau Drive, it says—which, last I heard, was still standing. Fearing that if I stopped, I would stop and stay forever, I sped onto I-10, past the office highrises and across the water and finally into Mississippi...