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...smell of bloated bodies and swamp rot permeates the air, especially in the suburbs to the north and east, as sewage laps at the doors and windows of homes, hospitals and amusement parks. In the hardest-hit area, St. Bernard Parish, to the east, searchers navigated the floodwaters looking for submerged bodies, often coming up empty, then finding horror: of the 67 known dead there, 27 perished in one nursing home. In one hospital, a single doctor was found caring for 57 patients in 10 ft. of water. Eleven patients had died. "You don't need dogs or detection devices...
...needed a new office for a long time. I'm going to con somebody into giving me one." New Orleans will need plenty more of that old, enterprising spirit if it is to recover all it has lost. --With reporting by Steve Barnes/St. Gabriel and Kim Humphreys/St. Bernard Parish...
...This is not a test. This is the real deal," Nagin announced, urging people to evacuate at an afternoon press conference with the Governor less than 48 hours before the storm hit. Still, he didn't make the evacuation mandatory, as at least one nearby parish had done. According to a New Orleans Times-Picayune story written that day, the mayor said he was having his staff research whether he could issue a mandatory evacuation, which he said was unprecedented...
...other supplies to handle the job. Over the years city officials have stressed that they didn't want to make it too comfortable at the Superdome since it was safer to leave the city altogether. "It's not a hotel," the director of emergency preparedness for St. Tammany parish told the Times-Picayune in 1999. But they never helped people find a better alternative...
...woman, I take exception to Sullivan's hopelessness for the inclusion of Catholic females in the modern church. I have a fulfilling high-profile job, and I also have a rewarding role in the church. I speak to our parish from the pulpit; I assist each week in serving the Holy Eucharist. Much precious energy is wasted by women fighting to become a priest. They could, instead, use that same energy to do most of the things that a priest does. What is wrong with a few positions in the world belonging exclusively to one sex? Only women give birth...