Three years after Hurricane Katrina exploded through floodwalls and inundated New Orleans, local businesses again find themselves threatened as a storm named Gustav heads their way.
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Edward Leftwich loves to show visitors around the Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens. It’s a massive 4,000-building mixed-use project that he just finished constructing for a client in Dubai, complete with hundreds of waterways, roads, and parks. But you don’t have to fly to Dubai to see it - the miniature city fits inside Leftwich’s office […]

Battery life and demands on the nation’s electric grid: your questions answered about the coming wave of electric autos.
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All that sculptor Ed McBride intended to build was a simple charcoal grill for his backyard. A year later he was searing salmon steaks on a barbecue fashioned to look like a five-foot-tall dragon.
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When you’re the restricted parent of an only child, you want only the best possible life for your kid. That’s how Jacqui Sentmanat feels. But it’s an expensive proposition.

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A rock-bottom price just isn’t sufficient for buyers these days - it’s a starting point. whether the furnace is out of period, they’ll demand a new one. Cracked driveways have to be repaved, and dirty carpeting torn out and replaced. All at the seller’s expense.

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Edward Leftwich loves to show visitors around the Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens. It’s a massive 4,000-building mixed-use project that he just finished constructing for a client in Dubai, complete with hundreds of waterways, roads, and parks. But you don’t have to fly to Dubai to see it - the miniature city fits inside Leftwich’s office […]

The dunking booth is always the most popular attraction at the Broadmoor Fest, a neighborhood carnival held every year since Hurricane Katrina to celebrate the survival of one of the Crescent City’s low-lying, flood-ravaged districts. At recent fairs FEMA officials were favorite targets in the booth; that year, though, everyone was waiting in line to […]

If your 401(k) is really full of losers, next you might consider dumping it for an IRA. But do a status check first.

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