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November 30, 2005

Resiliency Is Not Enough: Young Children and the Rebuilding of New Orleans

Evacuated to a Texas shelter after Hurricane Katrina, a 4-year-old talks of a dead dog with white worms coming out of it. A family hopes that a baby wracked by diarrhea will return to health. Another baby, who was with a babysitter when New Orleans flooded, is now under the care of Texas's child protective service because his mother was evacuated to Iowa.

Posted by Gary Holden at November 30, 2005 4:25 PM