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...smell of bloated bodies and swamp rot permeates the air, especially in the suburbs to the north and east, as sewage laps at the doors and windows of homes, hospitals and amusement parks. In the hardest-hit area, St. Bernard Parish, to the east, searchers navigated the floodwaters looking for submerged bodies, often coming up empty, then finding horror: of the 67 known dead there, 27 perished in one nursing home. In one hospital, a single doctor was found caring for 57 patients in 10 ft. of water. Eleven patients had died. "You don't need dogs or detection devices...
...rebuilding New Orleans is still a distant ambition at a time when merely cleaning it up remains a Sisyphean endeavor. The Guardsmen, flying above the city in their Black Hawks to rescue survivors, have seen what residents stranded without electricity could not--the utter devastation out east in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes, where the Gulf of Mexico has played no favorites, inundating millionaire McMansions and modest homes alike. In the middle of an intersection sits an abandoned wheelchair, water lapping at the handlebars, its occupant carried who knows where by the floodwaters. Cars line another roadway, their doors open...
...LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK 225-928-1315 leanweb.org LEAN has dropped food in the decimated St. Bernard, Washington and Plaquemine parishes and pledged to aid in the long toxic cleanup...
...Bernard Goldberg has been on a spirited crusade against the left for three books now -the number one New York Times bestseller Bias, the bestselling Arrogance, and his latest book, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. Goldberg, an Emmy-winning journalist, is a former correspondent on the CBS program 48 Hours. Galley Girl spoke by phone to him in Miami...
...more effective than U.S. economic sanctions have been since they were imposed in 1997. Smith College professor Eric Reeves, a leader in the divestment drive, admits to facing an uphill battle, but says, "We need to realize there's nothing else in the pipeline." --With reporting by Leslie-Bernard Joseph and Golnoush Niknejad