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There is a difference in what is focused upon, and the degree of disturbance that the person presents with,

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Now the city's most treasured landmarks are those that existed before the storm. The city has gone from one that looked forward to one that sees its happiest times in the past.

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My job is to ... sort of guide them through the negative and positive energies in their life and erase the barriers and increase the strength so they can accomplish their goals.

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When I read that, ... I realized that maybe this guy was not quite the hero history has made him out to be.

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The broader message is that technological hubris will always get you in trouble with nature.

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He embodied the hubris that so marked the last turn of the century when America believed it could do whatever it wanted, wherever it wanted, and could even override nature.

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If you can imagine walking out your back door -- and where you ordinarily see somebody's yard, kids playing and houses and the streets and all that stuff -- what you would most likely have seen is a pile in which your neighbors where at that very moment being incinerated,

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Old No. 2.

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Recovery had a lot to do with resolve and enthusiasm and the pace of rebuilding.

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Maybe I'm imagining it, but I sense a deep seam of sorrow in Galveston for the way things have turned out. It was such a glittering little city in 1900, with the promise of becoming another San Francisco or New Orleans,

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