Aug. 17—Six inches. …After two years and more than a billion dollars spent by the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild New Orleans’s hurricane protection system, that is how much the water level is likely to be reduced if a big 1-in-100 flood hits Leah Pratcher’s Gentilly neighborhood. …By comparison, the wealthier neighborhood to the west, Lakeview, had its flooding risk reduced by nearly five and a half feet.
NYT A1
--Mr. Reiss said he and other business leaders will no longer tolerate living in a dangerous city with bad schools and substandard municipal services. "Those who want to see this citiy rebuilt want to see it done in a completely different way ... " The power elite of NOLA ... insist the remade city won't simply restore the old order. --WSJ, A12 Sept. 12, 2005 [sic]
--2006 Suicide Rate for Soldiers Sets a Record for Army. NYT A13—le surge
--…Now there are reports that the Chinese government is withholding information on a fast spreading virus decimating its pig population.. NYT A22
--Bogus Diabetes Test Strips Traced to Chinese Distributor—NYT C7
--[Traverse Bay] Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan—Mario Batali—NYT D1
--Troop levels could jump temporarily [six] to a record 170,000 in Iraq this fall … In Baghdad, political leaders formed a fresh alliance to save the government, but it included no Sunnis. The death toll hit 400 in the attacks on Yazidis. WSJ A1
--The US received a veiled warning from Russian, China and Iran at a Central Asia summit not to interfere in the strategic region. WSJ A1
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