2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 31, 2006 NATION/WORLD New Orleans could take 25 years to recover Bush administration official sets dire timetable of city's rebirth WASHINGTON (AP) - A full recovery in New Orleans could take 25 years as homeowners, businesses and tourists are coaxed back to the city devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration's Gulf Coast recovery coordinator said yesterday. In an interview with The Associ- ated Press, Don Powell said that much of the city's rebirth will hinge on fac- tors he said were "out of our control," including restoring housing, ensuring safety and encouraging robust invest- ment by the private sector. "We kind of want it to happen overnight, or I do, but it's going to take some time," Powell said. "This could be five to 25 years for it all to fit into place." Powell also said the Army Corps of Engineers now estimates it will cost an additional $5.9 billion to repair levees enough to fully protect and insure nearly 1.1 million residents of the greater New Orleans area. That is in addition to the $3.5 bil- lion the Bush administration has so far sought to bring the levees back to at least their pre-Katrina levels by June 1, the start of the 2006 hurricane season. Powell said the Corps recently told him the administration must commit to spending as much as $5.9 billion more before it could fully certify the levees, as needed to issue flood maps that determine insurance rates and allow rebuilding to begin. Powell said he does not know how many more federal dollars Wash- ington will commit to the region, or whether some of the money will come from state and local governments. "We haven't decided what to ask for," Powell said. But he said that decision and the release of new flood maps would like- ly happen in a "relatively short period of time - in a matter of days." Over the next 60 days, Powell said, the Corps will be strengthening levees and building storm-proof pumping stations and flood gates to close cer- tain parts of the City's canals in the event of a major storm. AP PHOTO New Orleans is crowded with Mardi Gras revelers walking along the parade route Feb. 26, 2006 in a file photo. A Bush administration official in charge of the city's recovery said it may take five to 25 years for the city to recover. CANCUNMexico Bush, neighbors work for economic edge President Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico worked to iron out dis- agreements over trade and border security yesterday and to keep a North American economic edge against competition from rising powers like China. The three leaders, dressed casually in open-collared shirts, strolled together among the ancient Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza before sitting down for more intense one-on-one meetings at a beachfront resort hotel. Mexican President Vicente Fox planned a lavish dinner for his guests. The trilateral meeting was expected to be Fox's last since he is set to leave office this year due to term limits. Bush lauded Fox for stabilizing the Mexican economy and improving the net worth of his people. "That's important for the American economy as well," Bush said. "The more net worth there is in Mexico, the more likely it is the Mexican may be wanting to buy a U.S. product. And vice versa, by the way" MANAMA, Bahrain Ferry carrying up to 150 people sinks MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - A ferry carrying up to 150 people sank last night in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Bahrain, and at least 44 bodies have been recov- ered, the country's interior minister said. American divers and a U.S. helicopter aided the rescue effort. Interior Minister Sheik Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa said at least 52 people had been rescued. The official Bahrain News Agency said the ferry was on an evening cruise that was to last several hours. It overturned less than a mile off the coast, it said. There was no indication of what caused the ferry to sink in what appeared to be ideal weather conditions. The government dismissed terrorism as a cause, and the news agency quoted Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Mohammed Ben Dayna as calling the sinking an accident. NEW YORK Baseball launches probe into steroids, Bonds Baseball launched its probe yesterday into steroids use by Barry Bonds and oth- ers, and right away the head of the investigation came under attack. Commissioner Bud Selig said former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell - and a director of the Boston Red Sox - will lead the inquiry. Mitchell said he will not resign his position. The probe will be limited to events since September 2002, when the sport banned performance-enhancing drugs. No timetable for the investigation was announced. NEW YORK Study: Praying for heart patients has no effect In the largest scientific test of its kind, heart surgery patients showed no benefit when strangers prayed for their recovery. And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a slightly higher rate of complications. Doctors could only guess why. Several scientists questioned the concept of the study. Science "is not designed to study the supernatural," said Harold Koenig, director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at the Duke Uni- versity Medical Center. - Compiled from Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS A story on the front page of yesterday's edition (Renaming Big Ten Burrito) quoted Ryan Sosin, a University media relations intern, in a number of paragraphs. The quo- tations and other statements about his views on Big Ten Burrito were not his. They were the result of a prank by Sosin's friends, one of whom posed as him in an inter- view with The Michigan Daily. The same story mistakenly implied that several law students' advice on the case was formal legal advice. It was strictly informal and not intended to be used for litigation. A story on page 1lB of yesterday's Statement magazine (Cheap: C'est Chic: Rachel Arnsdorf) incorrectly identified the author of "Burial at Thebes" as Sophocles. Seamus Heaney wrote the play. Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. Court: Out-of-state gay couples can't marry Massachusetts high rules gay marriage for staters illegal court out-of- BOSTON (AP) - In a disappointment for the gay rights movement, the state's highest court ruled Thursday that same-sex couples from states where gay marriage is prohibited cannot tie the knot in Massachusetts. Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican who is a con- sidering a run for president in 2008, welcomed the decision, saying he did not want MassacLusetts to become "the Las Vegas of same-sex marriage." The Supreme Judicial Court upheld a 1913 state law that forbids nonresidents to marry in Massachu- setts if their marriage would not be recognized in their home state. If the court had struck down the law, Massachu- setts would have been thrown open to gay couples from across the country to get married. Then they could have returned to their home states to fight for legal recognition for those marriages. Massachusetts "has a significant interest in not meddling in matters in which another state, the one where a couple actually resides, has a paramount interest," Justice Francis Spina wrote. The state "can reasonably believe that nonresi- dent same-sex couples primarily are coming to this commonwealth to marry because they want to evade the marriage laws of their home states, and that Massachusetts should not be encouraging such evasion." The ruling leaves in legal limbo an undetermined number of out-of-state gay couples who got married in 2004 in Massachusetts when it became the first state to let gays wed. Arline Isaacson of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus called the decision "a painful reminder that we remain second-class citi- zens." "It's painful to know you'll be treated equally under the law if and only if you happen to live here," she said. "Otherwise, you are completely unequal as a gay person." But the governor said: "It's important that other states have the right to make their own determina- tion of marriage and not follow the wrong course that our Supreme Judicial Court put us on." More than 6,000 gay couples have married in Massachusetts since the same court ruled in a land- mark decision in 2003 that the state Constitution gives same-sex couples the same right to marry as heterosexual ones. Eight gay couples from surrounding states had challenged the 93-year-old law. Five of those eight couples received marriage licenses in Massachusetts before the governor ordered city and town clerks to enforce the 1913 law. In Thursday's ruling, six justices ruled against the gay couples in two separate opinions. Only one member of the seven-justice court dissented. However, the court sent the cases involving couples from Rhode Island and New York back to a lower court, saying it was unclear whether those states prohibit same-sex marriage. New York's top officials have said same-sex mar- riage is illegal in the state, although that interpreta- tion is being challenged. 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