European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pavelo 8 tags july 2007 French Quarter at risk experts new Orleans flood Walls threat to old areas by Cain Burdeau the associated press new Orleans the governments repairs to new Orleans Hurricane imaged levees May put the historic French Quarter in greater danger than it was before Hurricane a weakness planners said could not be at least for experts say the stronger levees and flood Walls could funnel storm water into the Culdesac of the Industrial Only 2 Miles from Bourbon and overwhelm the Waterways 12foothigh Concrete flood Walls that shield some of the cites most cherished the Only things separating Creole bungalows and Louis Cathedral from a hurricanes storm surge Are those similar in design to the Walls that broke during a system is much like a we have strength ened some of the and those areas Are now bet Ter said Robert a Lead investigator of an Independent National science foundation team that examined katrina levee when the Chain is challenged by High water it will break at those weak and they Are now next to some of the oldest including the French and All of those areas West of the David another Engineer with the nation Al science foundation concurred with Beas assessment that the French Quarter May now be in More peril than before officials from the army corps of engineers knew the levee repairs would heighten the risk to the French one even called it the systems to curb the the corps reinforced the exist ing but engineers did not have enough time or Money to entirely the flood Walls with High stronger Bea and other Independent experts say those Steps were it get All the repairs done and then look at the rest of the said de a University of Maryland Engineer and a top adviser on the reconstruction it was All being done in the he is stronger but its Misin formation to infer that its an unintended Conse the possibility Ofa heightened risk came As a sur prise to Many residents of the French Quarter and districts Suchias new where jazz great Jelly Roll Morton once is that what there saying that not said Nathan president of Vieux Carr property residents and associates an advocacy group defends the Quality of life in the French Adolph Bynum was unconvinced about the Poten tial new threat to his restoration of an 1840 Creole cot Tage damaged by katrina winds in a Charm ing neighbourhood next to the French Quarter where Plantation owners once housed their Black mistress if we lose new Orleans would no longer be new Chris an Aerial View shows new construction on the London Avenue canal with downtown new Orleans in the Back experts say the stronger levees and flood Walls could funnel storm water into the Culdesac of the Industrial a waterway Only 2 Miles from Bourbon and overwhelm the cites flood shown is a photo included in the stationary voyages exhibition at the mariners museum in Newport news in the 20 Virginia photographers explore some of the More than 150 gondolas and other Small boats the museum has mariners museum a old boats seen through new lenses in exhibit the associated press Newport the mariners museum is known for housing artefacts from the uss with a recently opened Wing dedicated to that famous civil War ironclad Battle but its holdings also include More than 150 kayaks and other Small boats from 42 nations that the museum has been collect ing since its opening in 1930 to document the Many ways people have set in a new 20 photographers explore 18 of those vessels not As functional objects but As pieces of focusing their lenses on often overlooked using software to digitally place boats against fantastic backdrops and manipulating natural and artificial lighting to create images with dra Matic stationary voyages the boat in on display through showcases about 90 of the photographers works alongside the boats that inspired the vessels include a fancy mid19thcentury Gondola from a 1920s Alaska Canoe Cov ered in Seal a 1930s Sampan from Shanghai and an homemade aluminium kayak a ref Ugee couple used to flee Cuba in the Lyles curator of Mari time arts and and Tom curator of began working on the project about a year they selected about 30 boats that could be easily moved to an exhibition they then invited 25 Virginia As Well As Jeffrey photographer with the Peabody Essex museum in to be part of the we asked them to interpret the boats As they were hot to provide just documentary images of the Forbes this is an Art museum style sex something Akin to How we would present paintings or mod Ern poll americans Raidt shared chores above children for Happy marriage the associated press new percentage of americans who consider Chil Dren very important to a successful marriage has dropped sharply since and More now cite the sharing of household chores As according to a sweeping new the Pew research Center sur vey on marriage and parenting found that children had fallen to eighth out of nine on a list of fac tors that people associate with successful marriages Well be Hind sharing household Good adequate in a Happy sexual relation ship and in a 1990 world values children ranked third in Tance among the same with 65 percent saying children were very important to a Good mar just 41 percent said so in the new Pew chore sharing was cited As very important by 62 percent of up from 47 percent the Survey also found by a margin of nearly Ameri cans say the main purpose of marriage is the Mutual happiness and fulfilment of adults rather than the bearing and raising of the surveys findings buttress concerns expressed by numerous scholars and family Pouch sex among them Barbara Dafoe Whitehead of Rutgers University National marriage the popular culture is increasingly oriented to fulfilling the fantasies and desires of she wrote in a recent re the Pew Survey was conducted by Telephone from mid february through mid March among a ran nationwide Sample of its margin of error is 3 percentage