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Jack Mudurian loves to sing. He once claimed that he knew more songs than Frank Sinatra. So David Greenberger challenged him, and recorded the results on the back porch of the Duplex Nursing Home in Boston.

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff announces that Mike Brown, the embattled director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is being relieved from daily direction of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown, barraged by criticism for the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, will no longer lead the relief effort on Gulf Coast and instead will work on "big picture" issues in Washington, D.C.

Part of New Orleans' southern charm comes from its green canopy of live oak trees. Many of those trees have been standing in water for more than a week, depriving their roots of oxygen.

After nearly a week of chaos and privation in New Orleans, the federal response to Hurricane Katrina appears to be making a dent in the city's anguish. Most of the known storm survivors are out of the flooded city. Rescue operations continue.

Tom Mathews' father was a veteran of the 10th Mountain Division in World War II. His book, Our Fathers' War, contains essays exploring how the conflict affected filial relations for 10 men who served.

As much of 80 percent of New Orleans remains flooded. Rescue operations continue, with more evacuations planned. Engineers are working desperately to shore up breached levees with sandbags. Gov. Kathleen Blanco says residents should leave the flooded city.

Around the country, buyers are scooping up real estate, knocking down old houses, and building grand new mansions. It's a trend that's finally coming to Cape Cod, birthplace of the original summer cottage. Some residents worry the demolitions are slowly erasing the cape's traditional character. From member station WBUR, Monica Brady-Myerov reports.

Jay Shafer, of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, talks about the movement to build small homes. Shafer builds -- and lives in -- houses as small as 70 square feet. He's encouraging others to live that way.

Some 26,000 people who fled from the Darfur region of Sudan are living in the Breidjing refugee camp in Eastern Chad. They are among 200,000 Sudanese who have fled across the border. Aid agencies predict that the camps will be needed until at least the end of next year.