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Hurricane Rita crashed into the coast bordering Lousiana and Texas on Saturday, causing considerably less damage than Hurricane Katrina, which struck Louisiana and Mississippi on Aug. 29. Although the estimated damage of Hurricane Rita is $4.5 billion, the death toll is about 10 people, much less than that of Hurricane Katrina, which totaled over...
Perhaps partly due to the low death toll, even students from the most affected areas did not seek the services, said Co-Master of Winthrop House Stephen P. Rosen...
...missteps as well, including a failure to get enough buses to people stranded in flooded neighborhoods, his baffling four-day disappearance during the second week of the crisis when he went to Dallas to rent a house for his family and his overwrought estimate that the city's death toll could be 10,000 instead of the likely finally tally of less than...
...Kathleen Blanco, the Governor of Louisiana. Claiming that it needed better coordination with local authorities to get the job done, Houston-based Kenyon International Emergency Services canceled its temporary contract with FEMA and signed on with the state instead. By the end of the week, the official death toll from Katrina had risen above...
...combat-hospital operating theater in time to save them. Elsewhere, an improvised explosive device detonates under a Bradley fighting vehicle, blowing off its lid and killing a young medic who, though based in the rear, had volunteered to enter the fighting fray. A few feet forward, the toll would have been worse, killing the Bradley commander and his gunner. "This is a war of inches," says a shaken U.S. officer...