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Article: Third World memories and New Orleans.(Hurricane Katrina vs. Asian Tsunami)
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 13, 2005
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Byline: Lisa Anderson
NEW ORLEANS _ Packing the same breathtakingly biblical power to leave cities humbled and humans crushed in its wake, Hurricane Katrina quickly took on the macabre mantle of "America's tsunami."
But, having witnessed the awful aftermath of both, I can tell you that, in some ways and for many reasons, the tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean in December was the kinder killer.
It left nearly 300,000 people dead or missing in 11 nations from Indonesia to Somalia, but the tsunami's monster wave came and went and then was gone _ along with almost everything in its path. At least in Sri Lanka, the little teardrop island off ...