New Orleans Sets Katrina Cleanup Deadline for Homes
New Orleans officials designate Tuesday, the hurricane's first anniversary, as the deadline for homeowners to gut or clean their properties in flood damaged areas. City leaders warn of penalties such as liens or seizure for noncompliance while activists note slow recovery across neighborhoods like the Lower Ninth Ward.
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Bart Landry
Lakeview
Landry
Arnie Fielkow
NAACP
Bruce Gordon
Lower Ninth Ward
Katrina memorial marks storm victims amid recovery sorrow
Gordon spoke at a dedication of a granite monument for Katrina victims in New Orleans. The city toll nears 1600 with flooding in Mid City as congregants from First United Baptist worship under a tent outside a damaged church. Lower Ninth Ward avoids a gutting deadline but residents must repair homes by an unspecified future date.
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Riots Spread After Tribal Chief Bugti Fatally Wounded
Unrest grows in Pakistan as mobs burn shops banks and buses for a second day after the death of tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti. Police arrest 450 as protests cross from Baluchistan into Sindh, including Karachi, spreading fears of wider conflict and militancy.
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Pakistan
Nawaz Sharif
Nawab Akbar Bugti
Baluchistan
Sindh
Karachi
Bugti
Rumsfeld Evaluates Evolving U S Missile Defense Shield
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld toured Fort Greely Alaska and tempered optimism about the ground based interceptors. He noted readiness requires more end to end testing before trusting the system to defeat a North Korean warhead. An 11th interceptor was to be installed today.
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Alaska
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Donald Rumsfeld
North Korea
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Greely
Feld
DNA crucial in Ramsey case as court appearance looms
Experts say prosecutors need strong DNA evidence to link John Mark Karr to JonBenet Ramsey’s death. Karr, 41, faces an advisement hearing in Boulder County Court today. no charges filed yet. Defense includes two public defenders. prosecutors say undisclosed DNA evidence exists.
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JonBenet Ramsey
Karr
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Jacobson
Public Defender’s Office
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Mary Lacy
Ramsey
FBI
Teacher gender affects student learning in new study
A Swarthmore economist reports that boys learn more from male teachers and girls from female teachers, with opposite-sex teachers hindering progress. The study analyzes 25 000 eighth graders from a 1988 Education Department survey amid debate and low male-teacher representation.
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Thomas Dee
Swarthmore College
Stanford University
Education Next
Hoover Institution
Dee
U.S
Education Department
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