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...tarpoleons meant to protect buildings that no longer exist. To their left, a steady snarl of traffic snaked its way eastward as residents from Louisiana and Mississippi fled the wrath of Hurricane Gustav, expected to make landfall as a Category 3 hurricane Monday morning southeast of Louisiana in Plaquemines Parish. At 6 a.m. EDT, the storm's center was located about 85 miles south of New Orleans and was moving northwest at 16 mph, as powerful winds lashed the largely deserted Louisiana coast. These sustained winds of 91 mph (146 kph) and gusts of 117 mph (188 kph) were measured...
...Lower Ninth Ward. During Katrina, a barge pierced the Industrial Canal's levee, flooding the Lower Ninth Ward. Since then, the Corps has built 15-foot-high walls - which it calls "T-Walls" - made of concrete. Other points in the region vulnerable to flooding are St. Bernard Parish, just south and east of the Lower Ninth Ward, and Houma, near where Gustav landed...
...With that, Nagin declared a mandatory evacuation that began at 8 a.m. Sunday for residents living on the west bank of the Mississippi River, and at noon for all other residents. And for the first time in history, Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard has called for a mandatory evacuation for the east bank of Jefferson Parish just outside of the New Orleans city limits...
...secret of Usain Bolt's sprinting prowess, at least according to his Aunt Lilly, lies in a substance the precocious Olympic champion has consumed for years: the mouth-watering yellow yams she still cooks for him at Miss Lilly's Bar and Shop in Trelawny parish, deep in the hilly heartland of Jamaica known as Cockpit Country. "You can count on that," Lilly Bolt, 56, told TIME by telephone from the patio of her restaurant, where Usain also likes to dance to roots reggae music. And Bolt's performance-enhancing yams should not be confused with any kind of drug...
...Priests intend to quit their day jobs. "Weddings, funerals, baptisms - all of these things must go on," says Delargy. To enshrine their priestly duties as a priority, their contract includes a clause freeing them from promotional events when parish duties call. They have also insisted their images not appear in promotional campaigns that seem to endorse behaviors that violate Church doctrine, such as abortion or premarital...