Topic: Hurricane Katrina

AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-14 10:10:12

Doctors have found a relation between stock market fluctuations and heart attack frequency, a preliminary study by North Carolina's Duke University Medical Center has said. "In analyzing our local patient population... during the recent period of increased volatility in the stock market, we found that when stock market values decreased, heart attacks seemed to increase, and then decreased when ...

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AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-14 05:10:16

Doctors have found a relation between stock market fluctuations and heart attack frequency, a preliminary study by North Carolina's Duke University Medical Center said Saturday. "In analyzing our local patient population... during the recent period of increased volatility in the stock market, we found that when stock market values decreased, heart attacks seemed to increase, and then decreased when ...

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AP News | 2010-03-11 20:20:02
2nd former New Orleans officer pleads guilty in cover-up of post-Katrina bridge shooting

A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to covering up the deadly shooting of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina, with a judge calling the plot a "despicable" scheme that immeasurably compounded the storm's damage. Jeffrey Lehrmann, who left the police department in 2006 ...

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Reuters US Online Report Domestic News | 2010-03-11 19:14:42

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former New Orleans police detective who now works as a U.S. immigration agent has pleaded guilty to helping cover up the shooting deaths of two people by police days after Hurricane Katrina, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Jeffrey Lehrmann, 38, pleaded guilty to covering up the shooting and failing to report the conspiracy to prevent ...

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Red Cross looks to IT for post-Katrina recovery

Computerworld | 2009-09-22 14:54:38

Defense agency to use Microsoft Virtual Earth

Computerworld | 2009-09-22 14:54:27

Supply chain execs share disaster-planning techniques

Computerworld | 2009-09-22 14:54:27

Looking Back on Disaster

Big Think | 2009-08-29 12:50:17

What Keeps Jonathan Zittrain up at Night?

Big Think | 2009-08-28 12:24:37

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