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AGAINST ALL ODDS New Zealander Mark Inglis, whose legs were severed below the knees because of frostbite on another expedition, became the first double amputee ever to summit. On the way up, Inglis had to repair a prosthetic limb--it snapped when he fell at about...
...chance of a major hurricane hitting the coast between Florida and Texas this year, up from a normal 30% chance. New Orleans officials are assuming the worst in planning for a big storm, having learned the hard way that commercial phone lines will fail, cell-phone towers will topple, repair teams could take days (or, more likely, weeks) to show up and the National Guard will come packing guns but no walkie-talkies. "In the end, you can only count on yourself," says deputy mayor Greg Meffert, the city's chief technology officer and a onetime tech entrepreneur. Like every...
...hopes and fears of the city are, for now, concentrated on a tall, rangy Corps veteran, Lieut. Colonel Lewis Setliff, head of Task Force Guardian, the group charged with repairing the levee system. Setliff's team has been given an $800 million pocketbook to repair more than 200 miles of levee damage and construct three unique floodgate systems to stop storm surges from riding into the city via the three drainage canals breached after Katrina. The Corps admitted last week that two of the three floodgates it was building for the job would not be finished on June...
...pumps had been submerged by post-Katrina floodwaters. One, turned on after the waters receded, caught fire. He got a similar report at Pump Station No. 6: six of nine pumps were submerged, and three later caught fire. The Corps last week outlined $40 million in work needed to repair more than 60 city pumps, a number of them made at the beginning of the 20th century. But the process takes so much time--35 days--that the repair work won't be finished until fall, toward the end of the storm season...
...medical staff assumes a God-like status. I recall how big a deal it was for my orthopedic surgeon, Major Gregory Hill, to spend a few minutes going over my prognosis. But the documentary shows the specialists as anxious, overworked and bored as any grunt. One night they repair to the roof of the hospital to smoke cigars and look over the rooftops of Baghdad, spotting explosions a few miles away. "We just see the consequences," says one doctor. Another says, "There's one with your name written all over...