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...where you drive block after block after block, and it’s all the same. And if you drive out of the city, you drive into Mississippi and Alabama and back down to the bayou.”Morgan trailed off, as if seeing the destruction.In the Ninth Ward, a heavily flooded, poor neighborhood where several undergraduate teams worked over spring break, rusty cars had been turned upside down and rugs flung over tree branches. One porch was missing its house. On it sat a single folding chair. And the debris lay piled into mounds like primitive graves, reminders...
...That’s why Doug C. Ahlers, a fellow at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, who led the volunteers, chose to place them in Broadmoor, rather than the better-known Lower Ninth Ward or the French Quarter...
...aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, some corpses rotted inside homes for several weeks, and residents felt abandoned by the rest of the nation. Here in the Ninth Ward, the Fire Department found a pair of bodies just 10 days ago—seven months after the storm...
...students met Omar because they are helping to lay the foundation for his house in the Musicians’ Village, a community of 80 houses being built in the Upper Ninth Ward...
...especially, like Case of Need, which he wrote while he was in medical school, and then The Andromeda Strain, of course, were big influences. I think anybody who is writing in the genre owes a lot to Robin Cook and especially to Coma. Actually, before I started writing Isolation Ward, I was reading a lot of Chandler and Hammett and tried to bring sort of a noir sense to Isolation Ward. I kind of wanted to craft a noir architecture on to a medical thriller, so they were big influences. In terms of voice, Nelson DeMille, especially a book called...