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Still, Cabot House residents said they are determined not to let the flood ruin this year. Others on campus have opened their homes to those in need...
...Ruin of J Robert Oppenheimer
...makes on behalf of Hurricane Katrina’s victims will necessarily look meager next to the billions of dollars that will be spent to save, salvage, and resurrect New Orleans in the coming months and years. Nonetheless, each invaluable life which Harvard rescues from painful disruption or utter ruin represents a laudable success and makes the country a better place...
Then comes what promises to be the most painful part, a process that might be called municipal triage. The foul waters will have plenty of time to ruin houses' and other buildings' insulation and wiring. Masonry structures will probably survive the flooding. The worst hit can be stripped back to the concrete, power washed and resurfaced. But a great many wooden structures--meaning most of the city's housing stock--will be bloated wrecks subject to mildew and collapse...
...dubious coping strategies that Manila is now mulling. Arroyo, who has stopped flying and reduced the number of SUVs in her presidential entourage as a symbolic step, pleaded with her nation last week to conserve energy. "We must act now before it's too late," she said, "before the ruin sets in because of callousness and complacency...