Word: rebuilders
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...after the Corps imprisoned the Mississippi River and converted it into a barge channel that stopped depositing sediment into its Delta; satellite images of this spring's floods showed the river wasting huge plumes of sediment out to sea, sediment that could be diverted to restore coastal marshes and rebuild barrier islands. There is already $1 billion worth of small projects on the books to start that process, but restoration work is moving much, much more slowly than levee work, and scientists have estimated that it could cost more than $20 billion to make a serious dent in addressing...
...Representatives, was elected in 2001 as the city's youngest mayor, the charismatic African-American politician brought energy to the economically decimated city. In the years since, thanks largely to the construction of both a baseball park and an NFL stadium downtown, the city has slowly begun to rebuild. Small but growing numbers of young professionals have moved in from the suburbs to live in newly constructed loft apartments, helping to slow the exodus that has slashed Detroit's population in half since the middle of the 20th century...
...sure to boom further with the arrival tomorrow in Tbilisi of Vice President Dick Cheney. A frequent advocate of robust U.S. intervention, Cheney is expected to highlight Georgia's role as a standard bearer for the free world while announcing a new $1 billion U.S. aid package to help rebuild the war-damaged country. His presence is almost certain to be linked to that of U.S. warships in the Black Sea, to which Putin has already promised a "calm" response...
...everyone here, gas was another major concern as stations quickly ran out of fuel and began turning customers away. Ronald Aldridge, traveling from Hammond, La. with his family of eight, stopped at one of the few gas stations to rebuild in Pass Christian, Mississippi, which was devastated by Katrina and is still struggling to recover. Last time, the Aldridges fled to Lafayette, Louisiana, returning to find their home swept away. Today, they're headed to Destin, Florida, hoping they fare better with Gustav. "It's getting a little too close," Aldridge said. "We didn't want to stay through...
...prepared to send monitors, but not a peacekeeping force, to South Ossetia. And it will send humanitarian aid to help rebuild the war-torn regions. But officials did not even pretend that this would be enough to send a strong message to Russia about the E.U.'s vigilance...