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HURRICANE KATRINA
Nicholas Lemann talks with Daniel Cappello about the fate of his home town, New Orleans.
From 1992, James B. Stewart on his Illinois home town, threatened by floodwaters from the Mississippi.
New Orleans is an affront to nature, and nature isn't shy about reminding New Orleans of it. Lots of other places are affronts to nature, too, but, if they are in the United States, they usually have the hermetically sealed feeling of high-rise beachfront condominiums and desert suburbs and houses perched on mountaintops. New Orleans is too scruffy ever to achieve that. Tendrils of vines poke up through the floorboards. Paint flakes, ...