In Ocean Springs, Mississippi, thousands of people are currently living in FEMA trailers.

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Mayor CONNIE MORAN (Ocean Springs, Mississippi): It is built to hurricane code.

NPR: Law Stands in the Way of Sturdy Katrina Cottages

She envisioned a neighborhood in Ocean Springs, full of Katrina cottages.

NPR: Law Stands in the Way of Sturdy Katrina Cottages

Both Bishop and Moran, of nearby Ocean Springs, say they are grateful for the stimulus money, and towns like theirs and others around the country need it.

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She would like to turn the parking lot of an old train depot in Ocean Springs, a town of about 18, 000 located 20 miles west of Moss Point, into green space.

CNN: Katrina red tape holds lessons for stimulus, mayors say

Scientists have found creatures thriving in places that would poison or cook most life on earth--deep inside rock, under the ocean or in hot springs, places that are extremely salty, or acidic, or bathed in radiation or heavy metals.

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These organisms, which have fundamentally different metabolisms to normal microbes, are found in hydrothermal vents on the deep-ocean floor and in rocks and springs hundreds of metres below the surface of the Earth.

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If the tide is high and the ocean stormy, waves roll into the springs.

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We now know that the hot-springs that sustain these "vent" ecosystems occur in every ocean basin and are host to hundreds of previously unknown animal species.

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