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Acts of God?

How natural are natural disasters?
Vol. 32, Nos. 1-4 Winter 2004

COVER SECTION

Letter from the Publisher: Acts of God? by Chris Kromm

Fear and Flooding in North Carolina by Sue Sturgis
A hurricane-harried African-American town lives with the specter of future disaster.

Portraits of Disaster by Hart Matthews PRINT ONLY
Scenes from the hurricane-ravaged coast of North Carolina.

Deluge without End
by Penny Loeb PRINT ONLY
Four years of unprecedented rainfall left much of West Virginia devastated. Now residents, activists, and regulators struggle to reform the logging and mining industries that bear much of the responsibility.

Last Call for Judgment Day by Ted Steinberg PRINT ONLY
An earthquake in South Carolina? It happened in 1886, destroying much of Charleston and shaking faith in the economic promise of the New South.

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION:

Tort Reform, Lone Star Style by Stephanie Mencimer
How Governor Bush and the business lobby drastically curtailed the rights of Texans to their day in court, and how President Bush would like to extend these "reforms" to the rest of the country.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:


Abu Ghraib in Virginia by Laura LaFay
The abuse of Iraqi inmates follows a pattern established in Southern prisons.

Extreme Makeover? by Sue Sturgis
How Southern progressives propose to remake the Democratic Party.

The Price of War Games
by Rania Masri
Two Mississippians try to make the U.S. military pay for its damage to a Puerto Rican island. 
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