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The Indiana University Center on Philanthropy's Eugene R. Tempel reports that private donations reached a billion dollars in just three weeks to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. When Rita arrived, the contributions kept flowing. We were equally generous after Sept. 11, 2001, and the Asian tsunami last winter. But does this generosity mean local needs go unmet because donations went to victims of terrorism and natural disasters instead?"