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Freelance journalist @nytimes @newyorker et al. Enjoys covering Brazil, Texas, hurricanes, travel. Priors @business, @UTexasLaw. Italian, Portuguese & Spanish.

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21 Years Later, Katrina’s ‘Zombie Buildings’ Are Coming Back to Life

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By Shannon Sims Verified
| Bloomberg News Verified
Photographer: Giancarlo D'Agostaro/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Navigating by the light of a cellphone over piles of wet insulation and rotted wood, Tulane University president Michael Fitts ducked underneath jagged pieces of metal hanging from the ceiling and showed off the school’s latest real estate project: a million-square-foot hospital that has sat empty for more than 20 years.
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Wanted: Two Bedrooms for a New Chapter in Setúbal, Portugal. Was $400,000 Enough?

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By Shannon Sims Verified
| The New York Times Verified
After raising their children in the small town of Macungie, Pa., near Allentown, Ann and Matt Miller dreamed of a new chapter far from the Rust Belt, one where they could stroll to bakeries, visit the beach and embrace a slower pace of life. As recent empty nesters, and with Mr. Miller, a union steamfitter eligible to retire this summer at age 55, the couple started exploring whether their dream could become a reality.
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How to Handle a Heat Wave? Advice From Glassblowers, Death Valley Park Rangers and Firefighters.

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By Shannon Sims Verified
| Breaking One
On Wednesday morning, Hailey Simko was in a fire engine on the way to the Babylon Fire, raging across southeast Utah. As a forest firefighter, Simko, 21, is used to extreme heat: "It's incredible how hot it gets," she said. With the United States experiencing staggering temperatures, driven by a large, slow-moving heat dome that is stretching from the central plains to the East Coast, I reached out to her and a handful of other unofficial experts, for advice.
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