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...warming has caused water levels to rise. The result: every half an hour, a chunk of land about the size of a football field is lost to the Gulf. Every year 22,000 acres sink beneath the waves. Locals say the Corps has traded a quick drowning for a slow but equally sure death...
...build the levees higher and stronger, but New Orleans didn't always rely on engineering bravado to save it from Gulf storms. Until this century, the city counted on a three-tiered defense: barrier islands to break the waves, wetlands to absorb storm surges and inland cypress forests to slow the winds. All have been disappearing...
...ghost swamp, one of many throughout the delta. When Katrina's winds howled in from the lake, the thinned forest around Bayou LaBranche could do little to buffer the impact on the communities of Norco and Good Hope to the south. Nor could the area's old marshland slow the storm surge that followed; most of the marsh had long since been turned into a salty lake...
...Dangerously Out of Touch? Matthew Cooper's article "Dipping his Toe into Disaster" discussed Bush's awkward and slow response to Katrina [Sept. 12]. But the point is not the political tone-deafness of the President or his handlers. It is whether his incompetence and that of his appointees have cost the lives of Americans. While the White House was working on speeches, people all along the Gulf Coast were desperate. They needed food and water, not rhetoric. Taylor Hebden Bloomington, Illinois...
...With an 8-1 win over Connecticut College yesterday, the Harvard men’s water polo team showed what it’s capable of doing when the team is playing at its best. After a slow start to the season, the Crimson (4-7) won its second game in a row and is starting to even out its lopsided record. After a close win over Brown on Thursday night, Harvard ended its contest against the Camels with a near shutout, suggesting that the offensive and defensive kinks in the team may be working themselves out. The Crimson offense...