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When the waters come down, they will expose a city that will have been steeping for weeks in a noxious soup. Although emergency-management officials are relieved that the flooding did not crack open the storage tanks of the large petrochemical factories south and east of the city, the waters still contain a poisonous mix of gasoline, household and industrial chemicals and stinking human waste. They will leave a layer of heavily contaminated silt everywhere. John Pardue, director of the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute at Louisiana State University, says, "We're going to have to find out how deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebuilding A Dream | 9/6/2005 | See Source »

...storm moved through on Monday, some streets were essentially dry. Then shortly after midnight, a section almost as long as a football field in a main levee near the 17th Street Canal ruptured, letting Lake Pontchartrain pour in. The city itself turned into a superbowl, roadways crumbled like soup crackers as the levees designed to protect them were now holding the water in. Engineers tried dropping 3,000-lb. sandbags, but the water just swallowed them. As the days passed, the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees the levees, admitted they weren't able to assess what might work. Part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aftermath | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

...even limited distribution. The government now requires pre-air approval for all foreign shows. Viacom last year announced a deal to produce children's programming but hasn't got approval yet. Now problems at News Corp., says a top Asia executive for a U.S. media company, "will spoil the soup for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing Beijing's Limits | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

...first few weeks of campaigning, Merkel and the cdu made some amateurish mistakes, appearing divided and, at times, muddled. Even the choice of theme song doesn't seem to have been thought through. The Rolling Stones are startled to hear that the track from their album Goats Head Soup has been pressed into service. "We didn't grant permission," a spokesman for the musicians told Time. "We are surprised that permission was not requested. If it had been requested, we would have said no." A spokesman for the cdu says the party cleared usage of excerpts from the song with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Angie" Rocks The Vote | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

WHAT'S THE TOUGHEST THING YOU FIND ABOUT GETTING YOUR TWO KIDS [AGES 18 AND 13] READY FOR SCHOOL IN THE FALL? For moms and dads who are getting ready for back to school of public-school children, there's a lot of alphabet soup. There's a lot of bureaucratese and education mumbo jumbo: AYP [adequate yearly progress] and the HQT [highly qualified teacher]. I think it's sometimes intimidating for parents and sometimes hard to navigate as to what the meaning of all that is to your own child. Now I'm embarking on this whole new sending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Margaret Spellings | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

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