Equations that Spell Disaster  By Cristina Luiggi Equations that
Spell Disaster Researchers are pinpointing the factors that
combine to produce complex diseases. Juan Carlos Solon When
Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast in August
2005, the Category 5 storm caused such severe and lingering
damage because it encountered the perfect combination of
vulnerabilities: weak infrastructure, poor lines of
communication, and a dysfunctional emergency rescue system.
These conditions coale  By | December 1, 2010  Equations that
Spell Disaster  Researchers are pinpointing the factors that
combine to produce complex diseases.  Juan Carlos Solon  When
Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast in August
2005, the Category 5 storm caused such severe and lingering
damage because it encountered the perfect combination of
vulnerabilities: weak infrastructure, poor lines of
communication, and a dysfunctional emergency rescue system.
These conditions coalesced to produce one of the worst human
catastrophes in