LYCOS RETRIEVER 
The Big Easy: Hurricane Katrina
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Many oil rigs just offshore help make Louisiana one of the biggest oil producers with reserves in the country. The area has many major pipelines to supply the nation. Tourism was a driving force prior to the hurricanes of 2005. New Orlean's biggest draws start with the Mardis Gras festival, and attractions in the historic French Quarter, riverboat gambling and more. The city was getting more than 10 million visitors annually before the storms of 2005. In 2004, tourists spent $4.9 billion in New Orleans.
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The New Orleans public school system was a study in everything wrong with the Big Easy -- cronyism, corruption, incompetence, complacency -- long before Hurricane Katrina blew the town off its foundation last August. Now, the renewal of public education in New Orleans might be the best barometer of the health of this fabled city, and its ability to recover from the devastating blow.
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[F]ar, the Gray Line Hurricane Katrina bus tour has been a big hit. Tickets for the initial run last week sold out, and the tour was so successful that Gray Line officials decided to add a second bus to the somewhat controversial tour.
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