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...Port of New Orleans commissioned 50 years ago for quick Gulf access. But quick access to open water also means easy access for seawater. The MRGO and two other deepwater channels carved out of the bayou meet at the Industrial Canal just east of New Orleans to form a superchannel that points like a shotgun at the city's low-income, low-elevation Ninth Ward. Hurricanes merely pull the trigger. Both Katrina and Rita brought storm surges from the Gulf and Lake Pontchartrain that crashed unimpeded, blasted past the levee and sank the district...
...viewer erosion by trying to expand their news offerings--into new time periods, like prime time, as well as into cable and the new technologies. NBC has been the most aggressive in this regard, with two cable-news networks, an Internet news service in conjunction with Microsoft, and NBC Superchannel, a programming service in Europe. "We've always been in the news-gathering business 24 hours a day," says NBC News president Andrew Lack. "Now we can provide our viewers--whether on the PC or on television--this information 24 hours...
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