Katrina: When New Orleans went to the Third World
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I've traveled to close to half-a-dozen refugee and displaced people's camps across Africa -- from Sierra Leone to Uganda, Kenya to Congo -- in the year since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Since flash floods swept away more than 2,000 residents here this fall, the recovery effort in Haiti's third-largest city has been agonizingly slow and dangerous.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19 -- Louisiana lags behind Mississippi in forwarding federal aid to cash-strapped communities after Hurricane Katrina, lending support to complaints by local officials in the New Orleans area that the state is holding up money they need for repairs and rebuilding.
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The United States must better protect poor people and African-Americans in natural disasters to avoid problems like those after Hurricane Katrina, a U.N. human rights panel said Friday.
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It wasn't the flooding that drove Dr. David Jones out of New Orleans for good. His house in the Lakeview neighborhood stayed dry. Instead, it was the way Hurricane Katrina eroded the orthopedic surgeon's practice.
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Our urban future, from Third World slums to the virtual Panopticon.
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US President George W. Bush visited New Orleans Wednesday as the devastated city marked two years since hurricane-driven waters washed out entire neighborhoods, killing some 1,100 people.
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On Sunday morning, another slice of life is scheduled to slide back into place as New Orleans slowly regains its cultural balance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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Just because Katrina was the perfect storm &#151; a catastrophic combo of the wrong hurricane in the wrong place at the wrong time &#151; doesn't mean that history can't repeat itself, leaving another city obliterated by another tempest. It can.
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New Orleans is still at risk of serious flooding two years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city, a government report has found.
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The levee system that was designed to protect New Orleans, but failed catastrophically during Hurricane Katrina, was completed under severe financial and political pressure, including opposition from local officials and environmentalists, according to a federally sponsored report set to be releas...
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PASS CHRISTIAN, Mississippi  - When hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans it also ravaged a series of small towns. Nearly two years later they have faded from the spotlight but are still struggling to rebuild.
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MIAMI _ After Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, Matt Callmeyer struggled to call his wife, who had evacuated. "I had to drive to Baton Rouge to get cell phone service," said the City of New Orleans emergency responder. He felt lucky that he knew where she was.
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The Times-Picayune went from being an average metropolitan daily to a vital must-read resource in an unlikely post-Katrina success story.
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Some say the oil industry played a role in hurricane Katrina, a $135 billion disaster
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 15--From Bob Bendick, director of the Southern Region of The Nature Conservancy:   I flew across the South from New Orleans to Charlotte. While the people around me read papers and stared into computer screens, I looked out the window.
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Armed with college degrees and buoyed with seemingly boundless energy, many young professionals have arrived in New Orleans and taken up work two years after Hurrican Katrina. Hanging over these young people, however, is a persistent question. Will they stay?