New Orleans and other Louisiana and Mississippi cities and towns now face mammoth cleanup and repair work from hurricane Katrina. Health and safety are threatened, and the entire nation’s economy may hang in the balance.
It’s the time for the National Guard. But they aren’t there. Neither is their equipment.
Over 3,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard 256th brigade is in Iraq. So is their equipment—including high water vehicles and generators, particularly important in flood disasters.
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Origins: Peanuts
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Americans for more than a century have known peanuts primarily as a snack
food, but it didn't start out that way. Cultivated by indigenous peoples
of ...
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