Books of The Times: Flood-Damaged Souls Finding Opportunity
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In his latest novel James Lee Burke bears witness to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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PERTH, Australia -- Struggling in the raging flood waters, Jillian Searle had to make a choice: which son to hold on and which to let go.
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William KeeganÂs new novel, ÂClosure,Â is a reminder of every individualÂs need to re-establish some kind of internal peace, or wholeness, after something or someone has ripped it apart.
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By Penix, Matthew  Oil and gas infrastructure was left mangled when Hurricane Katrina rambled through the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005. Vast amounts of work needed to be done by engineering firms already short on employees.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29 -- Church bells pealed at 9:38 a.m. here Tuesday, the moment floodwaters breached the city's levees a year ago, as the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina cast a funereal pall over this half-empty city.
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Tourists struggle with the wisdom and ethics of vacationing in disaster-hit regions.
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I am a journalist. Tough, unemotional, detached. Until Katrina. It was my worst childhood nightmare come true.
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A trip into the  adventurous psyche of Joan Rivers can feel like a trip down  memory lane on the Titanic -- with one important difference:  Rivers is a survivor.
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CHICAGO (Reuters Life!) - From the end of the world to New Testament beginnings. The authors of the controversial but best-selling apocalyptic "Left Behind" series have gone back in time.
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In a cruel irony, survivors of the tsunami in South Asia whose lives were devastated by water, now need fresh water to help stave off the threat of disease.
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People in flood-hit areas are urged not to panic as massive efforts begin to get drinking water to those stranded.
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For anyone who questioned why the Saints would go back to a flood-ravaged city, or wondered if a football game could really make a difference in the lives of people mired in misery, you have your answer.
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After Hurricane Katrina inundated his city, as Mayor Ray Nagin surveyed what was already being called the nation's worst natural disaster, press secretary Sally Forman asked if he was OK, she writes in a new book on the man and the post-storm chaos.
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A photographic look at the damage caused by the worst floods to hit the country in 60 years
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Rains bring out biblical metaphors but drought stricken Texas may be seeing life, both vegetable and animal, renewed all over.
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By McNulty, Ian  Nearly every structure in St. Bernard Parish was inundated with floodwater after Hurricane Katrina. But even as the community's school district sat in the lingering waters, St.
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Roofs may be torn and sanctuaries flooded, but on the eve of the Jewish New Year rabbis were filled with stories of a people who have endured far worse.