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HURRICANE KATRINAThe most common explanation for the failure of the levees protecting New Orleans has been that they simply weren't built to withstand a storm of Hurricane Katrina's ferocity. But several teams of engineers told a Senate panel last week that poor design or construction bears much of the blame.
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