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...know I did. But two years after Katrina drowned New Orleans, I'm persuaded that what happened in the Big Easy was less an act of nature than a man-made disaster. Katrina was not the Big One that the city had long feared; it was a Category 3 storm that mostly missed the city. But through a mixture of shoddy engineering, poor planning and selfish politics, a survivable hurricane was turned into an epic disaster. The storm was not the tragedy--that was an act of nature. The tragedy is how unprepared we were--and how, today, we still...
Even the most stable brain operates just a millimeter from madness. In such a finely tuned cognitive engine, only a small part must start to sputter before the whole machine comes crashing down. When that happens, reason and function come undone, rarely as dramatically as in the neurochemical storm that is obsessive-compulsive disorder...
...There’s a little algae on the water, but we don’t think it’s enough to affect the race,” Hester said. “If we get a huge rain storm, that will likely affect the water quality. We’re keeping our fingers and toes crossed...
...readying for a storm of competition, America in particular must return to basics. The most critical building block is education. Despite years of hand-wringing and higher spending than that of other industrialized nations, U.S. schools threaten to leave the nation less competitive in global labor markets. A barrage of test scores shows American students are already far behind the world's academic leaders. U.S. universities are still considered the best in the world. But compared with their international peers, American eighth graders in 2003 ranked 14th in math-just beating out Lithuania's kids-and ninth in the world...
...Before too long, it became clear that those symptoms also pointed to yet more evidence of FEMA incompetence in dealing with the aftermath of the devastating storm. In fact, if anyone thought that FEMA's reputation for its handling of Katrina couldn't get any worse, they only had to listen to Stewart and others testify at Thursday's hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Dozens of pages of internal FEMA e-mails released by the committee revealed the agency's deliberate ignorance of field staff who were concerned about formaldehyde gas being emitted in trailers housing...