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The early risers in my neighborhood arrived at the local bakery one recent morning to find the doors locked and the stone oven cold. They milled about for a while and then began speculating about why the bakery should mysteriously be shut. Before long, they settled on an explanation: the...
One year after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, insurance companies have settled 95% of homeowners' claims, paying out $16.4 billion. But the industry remains mired in related lawsuits, which could raise prices and lower availability. Allstate CEO Edward Liddy tells TIME's KATHLEEN KINGSBURY how his business must evolve...
Immediately after Katrina, the odds on Mississippi's recovering at the gaming tables didn't look so good. Two days after the hurricane, St. P? flew along the Mississippi coastline, surveying the devastation. Casino barges had been tossed ashore like toys, wrecking everything in their path - historic landmarks, businesses and...
Such feuds aren't surprising, perhaps. After all, as Thorne says, "There are more human evolutionists than there are fossils to go along with them." And the argument isn't likely to be settled soon. DNA tests of the skeleton might prove conclusively that it's from a modern human...
He is not alone in his newfound sentiments. Pain and anger are running though the veins of many New Orleans musicians these days. Ivan Neville, a member along with Butler of a newly formed group, The New Orleans Social Club, chose to sing an angry Vietnam-era antiestablishment anthem, Creedence...