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Editorial
Nature 437, 169 (8 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437169a; Published online 7 September 2005
Small-minded government
Abstract
Last week's debacle in New Orleans highlights failings not just in the Bush administration, but in how the United States chooses to govern itself.
The term 'natural disaster' doesn't really do justice to the scenes that unfolded in the southern United States last week. For a start, the main cause of death in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will have been drowning as a result of the flooding in New Orleans that sprang from a widely anticipated failure of the city's flood defences.
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