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The collapse of the skywalks at Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel in 1981 remains one of the nation’s worst engineering disasters.

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Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast, triggering one of the biggest national disasters in American history. From the earliest days of Katrina’s aftermath, the National ...