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Model Attempts to Recreate New Orleans Levee Failure

by David Kestenbaum, NPR
March 6, 2006

A team of engineers assembled in a Vicksburg, Miss., laboratory on Sunday to watch a centrifuge spin a tiny model of a New Orleans canal. The experiment was an attempt to recreate, on a smaller scale, the failures of the city's levee system during Hurricane Katrina.

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  • Morning Edition, March 6, 2006
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