One year after Katrina New Orleans life fights back
In the Lower Ninth Ward and beyond, residents like 94 year old Willie Lee Barnes gut and rebuild their ruined homes despite outages and mold. Neighbors confront a slow recovery as hospitals, schools, and power lag, yet signs of return appear on streets where people cook, bathe with river water, and reclaim space with grit and faith.
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New Orleans
Willie Lee Barnes
Louisiana
Lower Ninth Ward
Miss Barnes
Carolyn Parker
Broadmoor
Lower
Ninth Ward
Del
Subscriptions and service details for The Southern Illinoisan
The notice provides subscription contact numbers for Carbondale Murphysboro De Soto Williamson County and general area, plus 800-228-0429 option 2. It offers a year long subscription rate of 178 for 52 weeks and lists bonus papers dates August 28 to 31 2006 for Fri Sat Sun customers with opt out by calling 800-228-0429. It also covers missed papers replacement, website access, publication info and mailing details.
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Carbondale
Murphysboro
de Soto
Williamson County
Thesouthern.com
Pa agency turns airports banned items into eBay cash
Pennsylvania turns contraband from 12 airports in five states into cash via online auctions on eBay. Since 2004 the surplus program has raised over 307000 dollars with knives and similar items selling fastest. odd items like a man sized palm tree and a frosting crusted cake server line the warehouse.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
eBay
Puerto Vallarta
Ken Hess
Pennsylvania General Services Department
Pennsylvania to Sell Airport Lost and Found Items on eBay
Pennsylvania will receive discarded and confiscated items from TSA security contractors at multiple airports. Items are sorted and sold on eBay including pocket knives chain saws wedding cake servers and oddities such as a deer owlet. Bulk lots fetch modest sums with 500 Swiss Army knives selling for 595 and sports gear bundles around playoff time. The program spans Philadelphia Harrisburg Johnstown Allentown Kennedy LaGuardia Newark Trenton Nantucket and Cleveland area airports and seeks higher profits.
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Pennsylvania
TSA
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Johnstown
Allentown
Kennedy
LaGuardia
New York
Newark
Trenton
New Jersey
Nantucket
Massachusetts
Cleveland
HIV prevention pill shows early promise in Africa
A small trial of the HIV prevention drug Viread in African women hints at safety and reduced infection but few total cases limit conclusions. About 427 women on the drug and 432 on placebo showed two versus six infections after six months. Researchers urge rapid follow-up studies while CDC expands trials in multiple countries.
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Africa
Helene Gayle
CARE
Toronto
Family Health International
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Leigh Peterson
Ward Cates
Family Health
Federal
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Thailand
Botswana
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Quinn
Alee Enterprises
Southern Illinoisan
N. Illinois Ave
Lee Enterprises
Davenport
Iowa
P.O
Cayuga Lake
N.Y
Nathan’s Famous
Transportation Security Administration
Darrin Kayser
Aenese AN
American Thresherman Association
Pinckneyville
Illinois
John Deere
J.1. Case Heritage Foundations
Nevessas
Seane
P' Ville
Americanthresherman.com
Linois Central Railroad
Atlanta
San Francisco
U.S
Lynn Paxton
CDC
Gilead Sciences Inc
Foster City
Calif
Ghana
Cameroon
Nigeria
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