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...Nagin ordered 25,000 body bags. By then, most of the 1.3 million who lived in New Orleans and its suburbs had been bused or airlifted out. But a week after the levees broke, at least 10,000 were believed to be still in the city--some determined to stick it out, others inaccessible to rescuers. Health officials tested and found E. coli bacteria in the floodwaters, raising fears that diarrhea could spread. Fires set off by broken gas mains raged untamed, and hooligans controlled some zones. City officials--stung by criticism of their failures to clear the city before...
From his home in nearby White River Junction, Vt., Levenson drives to Dartmouth-Hitchcock in his 1988 stick-shift Chevrolet Nova. He does all his murals--for which he charges only the cost of materials--in the oncology section because his mother and the first of his three wives died of cancer. "The patients' conversations feed me--they keep me alert," says Levenson, who places an empty chair next to his easel to invite kibitzing while he works...
...More pressing for China and the region: the impact of oil on the world's most powerful economy, the U.S. Like China, America has absorbed the rising price of crude with surprising ease so far. But $70, if that's where prices stick, is a different story. It's already clear, at least anecdotally, that the oil virus is finally beginning to have an impact on spending by U.S. consumers, who drive much of the world's demand. Wal-Mart, for example, has warned that its profits are already getting hit by high gasoline prices. And the retail giant...
...seeing the integrity and the unfolding of individual achievements and artistic movements." As for Tate Modern, it is planning to rehang its entire permanent collection next year in time for the museum's sixth anniversary. In late September, it will provide the first clues as to whether it will stick with the thematic approach or try something more historical...
...wall of Fort Qualls is decorated with paper hearts bearing the names of military men and women. D.J. Santiago Jr., 8, wrote his father's name on one and Douglas Santiago Sr., a Navy corpsman recently returned from Iraq, helped him stick it on the wall. "I am tired of being the silent majority," Tina Taylor Santiago, D.J.'s mother said. "So many of us support what our troops are doing and no one says anything...