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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cirrus who wrote (706185)	10/6/2005 8:07:40 PM
From: George Coyne	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Well, rebuilding levees without fixing the marshes and barrier islands is ultimately a losing proposition. Believe it or not, the levees are a primary CAUSE of the destruction of the marshes and barrier islands. See "The Control of Nature" by John McPhee The Control of Nature, published in 1989 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, is John McPhee's bestselling account of places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature. In Louisiana, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has declared war on the lower Mississippi River, which threatens to follow a new route to the sea and cut off New Orleans and Baton Rouge from the rest of the United States.