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AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE KATRINA, LOUISIANA

The Seventeenth Street canal levee that gave way during Hurricane Katrina last month, is being reenforced in anticipation of Hurricane Rita on Sept. 21, 2005 in New Orleans, LA. (UPI Photo/ A.J. Sisco)

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