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...debris, rats and compromised water and sewer lines are making sales - and cleanup - difficult. But even in areas like middle-class Lakeview, where the sea of "For Sale" signs can be daunting (one in three houses, by some estimates), speculators are moving in to buy property - sometimes a whole block at a time - with the classically American conviction that this devastation is a buyer's market not to be missed. "It's the young crowd - 20-, 30- and 40-year-olds who are coming back and making things happen in New Orleans," says Ragan confidently. She should know...
...city deadline Tuesday to gut their houses. Those left open and in ruins face possible demolition. The deadline - part of the city's Good Neighbor Program - is meant to allay fears that some areas will end up with "jack-o-lantern" development, one or two rebuilt houses amid a block of devastation. But because Mayor Ray Nagin favors a "market-driven solution", residents aren't really sure which neighborhoods will come back. On Monday, competing development groups - representing the mayor, city council and, indirectly, the Louisiana Recovery Authority - finally signed an agreement to stop squabbling and put together a citywide...
Extension: 1. How to prolong writer’s block. 2. Harvard school attended by Hillary Duff...
...says. Brown also accused Teuku Jacob, the lead author of the PNAS paper and one of Indonesia's most respected anthropologists, of damaging the fossils while they were in his possession for several months last year; and Morwood claims Jacob used his influence with the Indonesian government to block further excavations at the site. Jacob has denied his rivals' accusations and his colleague Thorne defends him, remarking, "This is a very senior academic. This is not some guy off the street stealing bones...
...what Obama can do for this poor East African nation, and the Senator often remarks in speeches that his constituents are in Illinois and that his first loyalty is to them. The Nation newspaper editorialized that such worries were overblown and "should not be used as the basis to block the Senator from mixing freely with all the people who merely want to share in his homecoming...