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...about 7.9, making it 60 times as powerful as a magnitude 6.7--it's not inconceivable. In now eerie echoes from early 2001, some experts recall hearing officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency list a strong earthquake in California as among the most likely catastrophic disasters that could strike the U.S.--along with a terrorist attack in New York City and a major hurricane hitting New Orleans...
...since 2002 has the Harvard men’s soccer team pulled out a win in its season opener against Vermont—and one quick strike from the Catamounts propelled them to a 1-0 victory over the Crimson, extending that streak to three years...
...fallout may be fast, especially as Katrina's effects kick in. Delta Air Lines--the nation's third largest airline and AirTran's most powerful rival--may soon declare bankruptcy and cut back flights. Meanwhile, the labor strike at Northwest Airlines, the country's fourth biggest carrier, could drive it over the financial edge too. That would put a total of 5 out of 12 major airlines in bankruptcy (United, US Airways and ATA are already there). The same fate may await Independence Air, a small Virginia-based start-up that has been instrumental in driving fares down over...
...carriers struggle, Leonard is moving on their airspace. AirTran, which flies to 51 cities, will add flights to Detroit, Northwest's most important hub, starting in November. AirTran announced that it would start service there on the day it became clear a strike was likely at Northwest...
...with Miami and South Florida, where I live, in the wake of Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Today, when a major storm approaches Miami, the buses are out and the shutters are up-I put mine up twice last summer for hurricanes I knew probably weren't even going to strike. I saw little evidence of that preparedness along the Gulf coast; few houses had strongly-shuttered windows, and evacuation busses, according to residents, were in short supply. "It's just the New Orleans mentality," one Orleanian, who had evacuated, told me this week as he returned into the deserted city...