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...rebuilt "better and stronger" before hurricane season starts in June--thanks to $1.5 billion Congress approved in December for levee-repair work and temporary floodgates on Lake Pontchartrain. Will it be enough? To find out, the Corps, using a supercomputer and a centrifuge, is running simulations on 1,300 storm possibilities to calculate risk. East New Orleans is its test case, and its report is due later this month. "If there is another Katrina, the system is not built to deal with it," admits Ed Link, head of the Corps team assessing risk. That's why Bush last month asked...
...Bush promised to ask Congress for an additional $4.2 billion for that purpose. That would come on top of $6.2 billion allocated last year. Within days, Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco proposed a $7.5 billion plan that relies on the federal money. It would make available to the owners of storm-damaged homes a combination of grants and affordable loans worth up to $150,000, depending on the prestorm value of the house, minus whatever insurance payouts and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) aid a homeowner might get. In New Orleans alone, the payouts could apply to about 108,000 homes...
...around the Big Easy, that's the other big if. Task Force Guardian is the group within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers charged with making short-term repairs to the levee system by the start of storm season. To date, the Corps has signed nearly $400 million in repair contracts. All around town its crews can be seen working to restore levees, fix flood walls and install interim floodgates and bypass pumps. But for months the mantra around New Orleans has been that in the longer term, the city must have more--namely storm protection sufficient to resist...
Then came Katrina, which left 99 of the city's 117 public schools destroyed or badly damaged. Of the 60,000 students enrolled before the storm, just 9,831 have returned (that number is expected to more than double by fall of 2007, when a lot of children will find themselves crammed into temporary classrooms). The devastation created an opening for Blanco and the state legislature to achieve a longtime goal of education reformers. During a special legislative session in November, the state took control of the 102 schools that had been performing below state standards. The state...
...night’s loss to Princeton.With no significant scoring threat off the bench, Harvard has labored to find points when its starters are taking a quick breather. This was most apparent Friday night, as the Crimson built a 22-13 lead over Penn, only to have the Quakers storm right back as Harvard substituted out its starters.That led Sullivan to stick with his starting five down the stretch, forcing each starter to log between 36 and 43 minutes, a key source of the fatigue that the Crimson experienced the following evening.“Regardless of whether you play...