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...resilience of its people" is a fairy tale. To believe this city can be made safe in the face of warming global temperatures, powerful storms and rising sea levels is completely ridiculous. There's an old saying: A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money. The same could be said of New Orleans. The main lesson of Katrina is that you can't fool Mother Nature. Bruce Gary, Rhinelander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...resilience of its people" is a fairy tale. To believe this city can be made safe in the face of warming global temperatures, powerful storms and rising sea levels is completely ridiculous. There's an old saying: A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money. The same could be said of New Orleans. The main lesson of Katrina is that you can't fool Mother Nature. Bruce Gary, RHINELANDER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A City in Ruin | 8/24/2007 | See Source »

...identify personally with the three-step demobilization process: cease-fire, disarmament and social reintegration. "That experience made us sensitive to their problems," he said. "Their life, the lack of opportunities they have, that is what it was like for us, only instead of fighting with assault rifles, they throw rocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even Gangsters Need Their Mamas | 8/24/2007 | See Source »

...into an endless variety of cooking appliances to fill orders from distributors in 80 countries. Viking makes 24 in.-to -60 in. (60 cm to 150 cm) gas ranges with 17 different configurations in 14 different finishes, including stainless steel, cobalt blue and mint julep. Just a stone's throw away is a plant that makes refrigerators, and another that makes ventilation equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viking Simmers a Strategy | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...years on, there is still something dreamlike about the week that followed the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Was central London really carpeted with flowers? Did every U.S. TV network throw out its schedule to cover, at length, the funeral of an English divorcé of uncertain prospects? Did the most levelheaded folk you know choke up about 10 times that week, snuffling into their tissues, "I can't imagine why it's gotten to me so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Diana Effect | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

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