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Hurricane Protection Diminished by Eroding Wetlands in the Gulf
Five years after Katrina, President Obama said yesterday he's making good on his promise to protect New Orleans. But he barely mentioned the strategy most experts say would make the biggest difference of all — restoring the wetlands. Also, Vice President Biden's in Iraq to mark the end of US combat operations, and Christian belief and stem-cell research.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenFive years after Katrina, President Obama said yesterday he's making good on his promise to protect New Orleans. But he barely mentioned the strategy most experts say would make the biggest difference of all — restoring the wetlands. Also, Vice President Biden goes to Baghdad to mark the end of US combat operations in Iraq, and stem cell research and the politics of religion and science.
Banner image: An abandoned lighthouse is surrounded by water in the devastated Plaquemine's Parish August 3, 2006 near Venice, Lousiana. Locals say that before Hurricane Katrina, the lighthouse was surrounded by land. Katrina destroyed sizable amounts of the protective wetlands in the area. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
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3 storiesBiden in Baghdad to Mark End of US Combat Operations
Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Baghdad to preside over Wednesday’s ceremony marking the end of US combat operations in Iraq. Liz Sly is Baghdad correspondent for the Los Angeles Times .
Read the story7 minHurricane Protection Diminished by Eroding Wetlands in the Gulf
Yesterday, on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Obama was in New Orleans to address a crowd at Xavier University. He assured the crowd that his administration is "working to restore protective wetlands and natural barriers that were not only damaged by Katrina… but had been rapidly disappearing for decades."
Read the story35 minStem Cells and the Politics of Science and Religion
President Obama's director of the National Institutes of Health was approved by the Senate without objection, but is now cancelling stem cell research projects he approved, because a federal judge has ruled that they violate the intent of Congress.
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