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New Orleans Begins Counting Its Dead
French Quarter Holdouts Create 'Tribes'
Kanye West Rips Bush at Hurricane Aid Show
Shocked but alive, residents of New Orleans zoo emerge from Katrina
Katrina Damages New Orleans Landmarks
Katrina's Victims Poorer Than U.S. Average
Rate of ibuprofen-related asthma a concern in kids
World offers cash, aid to stricken southern US
Kuwait donates $500 mln oil products for Katrina
High-Tech Parking Meters Rake in Coins
World stunned as US struggles with Katrina
Clever Whale Uses Fish to Catch Seagulls
Suicides among New Orleans police, firefighters: mayor
Rapes, killings hit Katrina refugees in New Orleans
Despite Warnings, Washington Failed to Fund Levee Projects
Well, at least the spiders are gone..
Ecology Professor at Home in Straw House
Summer Bust Leaves Hollywood Uncertain


New Orleans Begins Counting Its Dead
New Orleans turned much of its attention Sunday to gathering up and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses. "It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine," the nation's homeland security chief warned.

French Quarter Holdouts Create 'Tribes'
In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor. As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to protect property. In a bar, a bartender put near-perfect stitches into the torn ear of a robbery victim.

Kanye West Rips Bush at Hurricane Aid Show
A celebrity telethon for Hurricane Katrina survivors took an unexpected turn when outspoken rapper Kanye West went off script during the live broadcast, declaring America is set up "to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible."

Shocked but alive, residents of New Orleans zoo emerge from Katrina
Other than an alligator on the loose, a couple of dead otters and a host of shell-shocked animals, denizens of the New Orleans zoo came through deadly Hurricane Katrina relatively unscathed.

Katrina Damages New Orleans Landmarks
In New Orleans, winding streets where revelers meandered, listening to jazz in the sticky heat, are now flooded with murky water. Some businesses and landmarks are submerged or damaged; others escaped the water but were ravaged by looters.

Katrina's Victims Poorer Than U.S. Average
People living in the path of Hurricane Katrina's worst devastation were twice as likely as most Americans to be poor and without a car — factors that may help explain why so many failed to evacuate as the storm approached.

Rate of ibuprofen-related asthma a concern in kids
Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:34 am PDT
Reuters - The rate of ibuprofen-sensitive asthma in children with mild or moderate asthma is low, the results of a study indicate. Nonetheless, because asthma is so prevalent in children, ibuprofen-sensitive asthma is a "public health concern," the investigators say.

World offers cash, aid to stricken southern US
The United States officially asked for emergency aid from the European Union and accepted assistance from the United Nations, as countries around the world pledged help for the hundreds of thousands left homeless by Hurricane Katrina.

Kuwait donates $500 mln oil products for Katrina
Wealthy OPEC nation Kuwait is donating $500 million worth of oil products and other humanitarian aid to its ally the United States to ease the impact of Hurricane Katrina, state news agency KUNA reported on Sunday.

World stunned as US struggles with Katrina
The world has watched amazed as the planet's only superpower struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with some saying the chaos has exposed flaws and deep divisions in American society.

Suicides among New Orleans police, firefighters: mayor
Some New Orleans police and firefighters were driven to suicide by the trauma of trying to hold the city together in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin said.

Rapes, killings hit Katrina refugees in New Orleans
People left homeless by Hurricane Katrina told horrific stories of rape, murder and trigger-happy guards in two New Orleans centers that were set up as shelters but became places of violence and terror.

Despite Warnings, Washington Failed to Fund Levee Projects
Los Angeles Times For years, Washington had been warned that doom lurked just beyond the levees. And for years, the White House and Congress had dickered over how much money to put into shoring up century-old dikes and carrying out newer flood control projects to protect the city of New Orleans.

Well, at least the spiders are gone..
A German woman laid waste to her family home by setting fire to it as she tried to kill spiders in a garage with a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter.

Ecology Professor at Home in Straw House
Miles off the paved highway and at the end of a long, bumpy driveway that cuts deep into the woods, Mick Womersley puts the finishing touches on his solar panel-topped home. It's not your ordinary rural dwelling, even one designed to be ecologically sound.

Summer Bust Leaves Hollywood Uncertain
Americans' love affair with movies is far from over. Yet like many relationships, it seems to be suffering from a case of familiarity breeds contempt. Summer 2005 was the worst since 1997 for movie attendance, which dropped sharply and rattled the complacency of studios.

Clever Whale Uses Fish to Catch Seagulls
An enterprising young killer whale at Marineland has figured out how to use fish as bait to catch seagulls — and shared his strategy with his fellow whales.

High-Tech Parking Meters Rake in Coins
In this seaside town, parking meters don't grant those magical few minutes on someone else's dime. Each time a car pulls away from a space, the meter automatically resets to zero.