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...police superintendent Warren Riley will "handle it very seriously," but Riley's record is checkered with suspensions, one involving his alleged failure to act promptly enough after a woman told him that a police officer had threatened to kill her. (Soon after that, her body was found in a swamp, and the case remains unsolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can New Orleans Do Better? | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

EASTON, Pa.—The field looked bad. It played worse. A week ago, Lafayette, Columbia, and a torrential downpour combined to turn the Fisher Field turf into a veritable swamp. Constant rainfall and a broken drainage system hadn’t improved the conditions by kickoff Saturday, despite clear skies. Fortunately for the Crimson, the weather in Boston rivals that in Pennsylvania. “I think it rained almost as much up at Harvard,” senior fullback Kelly Widman said, “and we had a whole practice field of mud, just like...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Muddy Conditions Can't Stop Harvard | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

...combination of steady rain and malfunctions with the Fisher Field drainage systems could leave the playing surface swamp-like for tomorrow’s contest...

Author: By David H. Stearns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Offense Needs to Step up for Harvard | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

Just a short drive from the petrochemical cesspools of eastern New Orleans, it's heartening to see nature seemingly unbowed by hurricanes. But even though the waterway is alive and well, the cypress swamps that line it are clearly dead. The 100-year-old trees stand naked and decayed, their bark stripped by the wind. The hurricanes are not the culprit. The trees have been dead for a decade or more, victims of man-made canals that carry brackish water from Lake Pontchartrain, poisoning the cypress. Biologists call this a ghost swamp, one of many throughout the delta. When Katrina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsafe Harbor | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...smell of bloated bodies and swamp rot permeates the air, especially in the suburbs to the north and east, as sewage laps at the doors and windows of homes, hospitals and amusement parks. In the hardest-hit area, St. Bernard Parish, to the east, searchers navigated the floodwaters looking for submerged bodies, often coming up empty, then finding horror: of the 67 known dead there, 27 perished in one nursing home. In one hospital, a single doctor was found caring for 57 patients in 10 ft. of water. Eleven patients had died. "You don't need dogs or detection devices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Among the Ruins | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

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