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...Horne says that within a few weeks of Hurricane Katrina, he had decided that it was “a man-made disaster.” He even considered titling his book “Unnatural Disaster.”“Katrina was really the first full test of Homeland Security and it failed stunningly and astonishingly,” he says.And while he calls the performance of the federal government “absolutely, outrageously flawed,” Horne says he still believes in the future of New Orleans. With tax credits and federal...

Author: By Casey N. Cep, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Horne Writes About Katrina | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...also built to deliver more relevant links, by pulling from the part of its index that makes the most sense (it doesn't bother with travel sites if the keyword is diabetes, for example). The specialized health search engine is the farthest along - it graduated from the alpha test phase to beta in February - but Kosmix has been busy adding new subject areas, including Finance, Travel and U.S. politics, and, most recently, video games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Search and Services | 8/3/2006 | See Source »

...number of pages) then makes your book available on the site for others to buy. For now, the site's BookSmart software already can be used to make other types of books (cookbooks, baby books, poetry books) while the blog-to-book program, temporarily unavailable while 200 selected bloggers test it, makes it public debut in September. We're talking books you can page through and place on coffee tables. How retro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Search and Services | 8/3/2006 | See Source »

...other hand, if all a company is doing is essentially telling its customers to stop smoking and start eating more broccoli, it probably isn?t putting them in grave danger. "You may not be getting the full value out of every dollar you spend on your test," says Ray Rodriguez, director of the Center of Excellence in Nutritional Genomics at the University of California, Davis, "but it won't do you any harm - and you might actually start taking your nutrition more seriously." The only question is whether you really want to shell out $1,000, or even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a DNA Test Tell You How to Live Your Life? | 8/1/2006 | See Source »

...only one issue in a target-rich environment for Democrats: McCaskill is spending more time talking about the Iraq war and Republican corruption than about Talent's opposition to stem-cell research. And as she campaigns in conservative rural areas, McCaskill is making the issue more of a test of Talent's character than of his ideology, pointing to instances in which he has waffled in his opposition. So it's hard to predict how much the stem-cell question will figure in the Senate race's outcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of Science | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

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