DALLAS -- A tour of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum begins in a bright area representing his early domestic agenda, but with one turn, visitors find themselves in a darkened room surrounded by chilling reminders of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

This contrast, symbolizing Bush's abrupt shift in priorities less than eight months into his first term, is among the most poignant exhibits at a museum being dedicated this week that also chronicles the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the Florida recount and various other historical events.

Bush told The Associated Press last week that he wanted to make sure the part of the museum devoted to 9/11 was powerful enough to remind visitors of how much the world changed that day.

"It's very emotional and very profound," Bush said. "One of the reasons it has to be is because memories are fading rapidly and

DALLAS -- A tour of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum begins in a bright area representing his early domestic agenda, but with one turn, visitors find themselves in a darkened room surrounded by chilling reminders of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

This contrast, symbolizing Bush's abrupt shift in priorities less than eight months into his first term, is among the most poignant exhibits at a museum being dedicated this week that also chronicles the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the Florida recount and various other historical events.

Bush told The Associated Press last week that he wanted to make sure the part of the museum devoted to 9/11 was powerful enough to remind visitors of how much the world changed that day.

"It's very emotional and very profound," Bush said. "One of the reasons it has to be is because memories are fading rapidly and

As the infusion of Hurricane Katrina rebuilding money winds down, the economy of Southeast Louisiana, praised for its relative strength during the national recession, is about to return to a reliance on its traditional industries, such as tourism , oil and shipping , said a report released Tuesday by the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center . So to stay competitive, the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Houma areas need to cooperate on developing a greater array of business sectors and become an economic "super region," the report said.

The center pegged job growth through 2020 in the three metropolitan areas at an annual 1.4 percent, behind the 2 percent or higher expected rates in Atlanta, Austin, Houston and Raleigh. The study credits those urban areas with diversifying their economies.

The center says the three Southeast Louisiana business hubs

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  A boy bikes past homes unrepaired since Hurricane Katrina, on the eve of the storm's five year anniversary in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana August 28, 2010.

Congressional leaders have called the development a troubling, and a clear sign that tighter controls are needed to regulate where money goes to in the aftermath of disasters.

According to ABC News, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is applying pressure on the state of Louisiana to recover the money, which reportedly was given for homeowners to elevate their houses, but which "certainly did not go to elevating homes and preventing future damage from storms," according to the inspector general, David Montoya.

Montoya has told ABC News that there was just a "slim" chance at best that any of the money would be reclaimed now.

He said, "We have