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Unnatural disaster

Unnatural disaster

Cover Story | Hurricane Katrina submerges New Orleans, strafes Gulf Coast states, and puts the nation on emergency footing

Helping hands

Cover Story Sidebar | Organizations accepting donations to assist with Hurricane Katrina relief: American Red Cross 2025 E. Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20006 (800) 435-7669 www.redcross.org International Aid 17011 W. Hickory Spring Lake, MI 49456 (800) 251-2502 www.internationalaid.org Northwest Medical Teams P.O. Box 10 Portland, OR 97207 (800) 959-HEAL www.nwmedicalteams.org Operation Blessing International 977 Centerville Turnpike Virginia Beach, VA 23463 (800) 730-2537 www.ob.org Presbyterian Church in

In this issue: "Katrina: Unnatural disaster," Sept. 10, 2005

Features

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Stamp of approval

Charity |  Bush administration reverses policy for faith-based rehab

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Roberts Roast: Field guide to the inquisition

Politics |  When Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter brings down the gavel on Sept. 6, as scheduled, he will commence hearings on the man nominated to be…

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Faithful and true?

Special Issue |  WORLD kicks off a three-issue "Back to School" series with a panel of experts discussing the state of Christian colleges

Parental prerogatives
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Parental prerogatives

Special Issue |  With a growing number of voucher and tax-credit programs, 2005 has been the "most successful year yet" for advocates of school choice

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Two-edged swords

Special Issue |  It's shaping up to be a lively fall for public-school Bible curricula as publishers and interest groups do battle

Dispatches

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Quotables

"I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago." Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour after touring by helicopter the devastation left by…

Quick Takes
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Quick Takes

Monkey on her back Do they make Nicorette patches for apes? Handlers at a zoo in northwest China are trying to find a way to break a 26-year-old chimpanzee's…

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Aftermath

It will be a challenge for believers not living in the three states that took the direct hit to keep the suffering of these people front and center in the…

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The Buzz

The latest on the week's biggest stories

Reviews

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The Brothers Grimm

Movies |  Film has promise, but narrative gets gummed up with labored surrealism

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Bestselling books

Notable Books |  The four bestselling hardback novels

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Movies |  The intense but restrained film is directed by professed Christian and horror-movie veteran Scott Derrickson

Notebook

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Slower but steady

Money |  Gas prices rose as workers returned to the area's oil platforms and refineries to assess the damage of Hurricane Katrina

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New birth

Technology |  In the $1 billion industry for new ultrasound equipment, one company is making costly technology accessible to more customers by refurbishing and selling…

Voices

Our social smoothie
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Our social smoothie

Let's put away the cultural blender and celebrate genuine diversity

Free to agree
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Free to agree

Academic freedom is more than acceptance of the campus party line. Many states are seeking to expand freedom

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Stepping into the story

Viewing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a different lens

From Jonathan Edwards to 9/11
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From Jonathan Edwards to 9/11

Fair gales and stormy tempests mingle in Princeton cemetery

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Letters, feedback, etc.

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