By Cassandra Willyard

When Laura Levy returned to her laboratory in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there was nothing to suggest that a violent storm had pummeled the city. On the fifth floor of the Tulane University School of Medicine, where Levy’s lab sits, most things were in their proper place. “It was really most peculiar,” she says. The laboratories, she adds, “looked just as they looked the day we left.” (Click here to continue reading)

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