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...city's life. FEMA is expected to issue its advisory floodplain maps in March. Those will identify the most flood-prone parts of town, where homeowners must obtain flood insurance. Until the maps come out, it's hard for people to calculate the cost of returning. Construction worker Mike Reed was gutting a wood-frame house last week in Lakeview, a prosperous neighborhood on the lip of Lake Pontchartrain that was devastated when the 17th Street levee broke. "Most people have had their places gutted," he says. "But if you drive around, you'll see nobody putting up Sheetrock...
...music itself makes no great claims to originality. The Arctic Monkeys' lo-fi guitar jags are cribbed from the Strokes and Franz Ferdinand (who cribbed them from Lou Reed and Television and so on), and the band's ska rhythms and martial drums come courtesy of the Clash. But singer-guitarist Alex Turner, guitarist Jamie Cook, drummer Matt Helders and bassist Andy Nicholson play with a swagger that obliterates any trace of ancestor worship. They aren't referencing anything as they fly through tunes like The View from the Afternoon; they're just playing as many hooks as possible...
...Staff writer Reed B. Rayman can be reached at rrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
Neither Pasquarello nor the MBTA Police would comment any further on a motive or relation between the suspect and the victim, or on the investigation of the incident. —Staff writer Anna M. Friedman contributed to the reporting of this article. —Staff writer Reed B. Rayman can be reached at rrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...year, letters poured in from readers asking what had become of the young man photographed on a doctor's examining table calmly inspecting the remains of his severed limb. It's a scene being played out daily as soldiers and Guardsmen come home from Iraq seeking treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Brooke in San Antonio and veterans' hospitals nationwide. Three years since the start of the war, the toll of seriously wounded from Iraq exceeds 7,600--men and women without limbs, with horrid burns, with brain damage, all of them dealing with the psychological scars...