Gardeners cultivate hope in battered New Orleans
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PEARL RIVER, Louisiana  - Looking at his metal-sided trailer home parked on a scrubby, storm-ravaged lot, hurricane survivor Larry Bridevaux decided to lift his spirits by planting a garden.
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President Bush comforted this city that lost so much in Hurricane Katrina and has regained so little in the year since. Amid the raw sorrow of Tuesday's anniversary, the president selected a few beacons of hope to give a lift to struggling Gulf communities and his own still-smarting presidency.
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AT A TIME when children and young people in inner cities are increasingly finding the natural world an alien environment, a small south London charity is using horticulture to help troubled teenagers re-engage with society.
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI NEW ORLEANS - Water is unforgiving to the dead and by the time the crews arrived, the men were missing their eyes.
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SAN ANTONIO, Angola -- As Antonio Cambanda dug into the dry, red dirt before him, he had the look of an unusually intense and wary gardener. He clipped weeds, softened the soil with water, and then, with a short-handled shovel, delicately scraped.
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The route to the moon and perhaps to Mars now goes through New Orleans Â and the detour couldn't come at a better time in the city's struggle to rebuild its shattered economy after Hurricane Katrina.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--The Coast's embattled urban trees are about to receive two types of help on Friday.
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Signs of Hurricane Katrina's   devastation remain visible throughout this once-dynamic port   city, yet the resurrection of the iconic Superdome is symbolic   of its will to rebuild.
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The Louisiana Superdome, a scene of  misery, frustration and death in the days after Hurricane  Katrina, came back to life on Monday as the New Orleans Saints  took the field for what turned out to be much more than a  football game.
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You might be surprised how far you have to drive from New Orleans, LA to get to the Gulf of Mexico.  Following     the west bank of the Mississippi River along Hwy 23, you go through the separate and well-separated towns of     Belle Chasse, Pointe a la Hache, Port Sulphur, Empire, Boothville, and finally over 60 miles from New Orleans     the tiny oilfield supply and marina town of Venice.    At Empire the highway goes over a pretty tall bridge and on the other side of the canal, beyond the levee     system, Katrina's storm surge came through with a vengeance.  The roads have been cleared but everywhere along     them are the twisted skeletons of steel buildings with vegetation hanging out of shattered second-story     windows.  A refrigerator sits atop the flooded husk of a house.  A perfect square of fenceless pickets     surrounds a perfectly bare concrete slab.  The occasional forlorn FEMA trailer can be spotted parked on one of     many slabs in a field of such slabs that was once a neighborhood.  The carcass of a cow is wedged improbably     in the canopy of a tree twenty feet up.    What is striking is not that the landscape looks like this; most of the coastline of Louisiana and Mississippi     experienced such damage.  What is striking is that it looked like this when I visited last week, in August     2006, almost an entire year after the storm came through.
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The first anniversary of the biggest calamity to befall this city was marked Tuesday with a moment of silence, wreath-layings, the tolling of bells and, in true New Orleans fashion, a wailing jazz funeral through the potholed streets for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Now that the hurricane season has ended, New Orleans residents notice a lag in work to rebuild the cityÂs flood protection infrastructure.
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Depression, suicide, drinking and domestic abuse are up in New Orleans, which is ill-equipped to offer much counseling help, and the hurricane's one-year anniversary only makes it worse
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NEW ORLEANS -- Where the canal wall burst and doomed the Lower Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina, there now stands an imposing concrete monolith.
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Two residents got the keys Thursday to what are believed to be the first homes built in the Lower Ninth Ward since Hurricane Katrina hit 18 months ago, and officials hope the houses &#151; elevated against floodwaters and designed to withstand 160 mph winds &#151; will help spark a revival in the devastated neighborhood.
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Dozens of weather-beaten New Yorkers have managed to find salvation in curatives as varied as oatmeal, olive oil and pedicures.
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Amid all the problems that New Orleans has faced, relieving black-white distrust has proven to be one of the toughest