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Last week, the Army Corps of Engineers flooded Vicksburg, Miss., to save New Orleans, an awful choice that speaks volumes about how hard it is for even modern technology to fight Mother Nature. 24/7 Wall St. looks back at other times when water won the battle.
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, an estimated 100,000 displaced New Orleans residents have yet to return home. What impact have these evacuees had on the local economies of their new homes?
The Awful Odyssey of FEMA's Hurricane Katrina Trailers
10:15AM 8/28/2010
The Federal Emergency Management Agency housed Katrina-displaced people in 145,000 trailers. Today the trailers -- many of which emitted unsafe levels of formaldehyde -- have become a symbol of incompetence in the face of a national tragedy.
After Katrina, the New Orleans Population Goes Upscale
10:10AM 8/28/2010
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is older, wealthier and less diverse, but it's also home to more well-off young people -- demographic changes that could attract more businesses and developers, and give a real lift to efforts to rebuild the Big Easy.
TV news analyst Andrew Tyndall tracks every minute of airtime spent by the three nightly network news broadcasts. So which stories garnered the most airtime on each network?
Stocks in the news: Travelers, AT&T, McDonald's, Microsoft
9:00AM 10/22/2009
Microsoft, Motorola, Apple, AT&T, Xerox, McDonald's, Travelers, UPS, Merck, Schering-Plough
Shares of Travelers Cos. (TRV) shot up more than 4 percent in pre-market action after the insurance giant Thursday reported a much higher third quarter profit, earning $935 million, or $1.65 a share. Per-share earnings far exceeded a consensus estimate of $1.30 a share, according to a poll of 15...
Animals & Money: Pets did much better with Hurricane Gustav
5:33PM 9/08/2008
New Orleans residents all did better this hurricane, including the dogs and cats. What happened last time around during Katrina to animals and their owners inspired some great changes.During Katrina animals weren't allowed in shelters or buses leaving town. That gave pet owners two awful options:...
Despite the massive force that was Gustav, New Orleans avoided the brunt much better than expected, which is good news for the economy. Well, better news, anyway. Storms of this size by definition have an impact on the economy.Even though damages to homes, infrastructure and energy production won't...
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