March 10, 2006

Schooled in Disaster

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

Public-health students in New Orleans get lessons in crisis relief firsthand

Just back from traveling halfway around the world to study public-health problems in Nairobi, two Tulane University graduate students met disaster in their own backyard.

In late August, as Hurricane Katrina was barreling toward New Orleans, Greg Stone, 24, and Tim Grant, 29, collapsed in their apartment here to sleep off their jet lag and rest up for the first day of classes. They had no idea that the

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