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Another stain on the souls of New Orleans


Imagine that you’re a scientist specialising in tracking storms, and you’re the deputy director of a hurricane warning centre. And you warn about a coming killer storm — but your bosses tell you to shut up, because you’re endangering the institution’s funds. And then Katrina hits. That is apparently what happened to Ivo van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center. Read all about it here.