Texas has had an "interesting" history of record-setting disasters--New london, the Galveston Hurricane, the Texas City Grandcamp explosion... all rate pretty high in the history books. My Dad actually went to school in New London, dropped out and went on the road in the early 30's. One of the few cases where dropping out of school was for the best. New London never did recover from the explosion, I went through there about 10 years back, still just a little wide spot in the road.
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-------------------- With no known exceptions, the cost of internal trust, efficiency and loyalty is external distrust. The "us against them" is not an optional feature, if there were some way to preserve the loyalties and the tremendous benefits of internal trust without paying the cost of the ferocious xenophobia, then that would be just what we want to do. But we don't know how to do that. --Daniel Dennett http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2007/1812733.htm