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...after abduction or capture. And 29% of those victims had signs of torture on their bodies such as bruises, drill holes or burns. Suicide bombers in cars or on foot were responsible for 14% of the victims in the study, while U.S. airstrikes killed 4%. (See pictures of the aftershock in Iraq and the U.S. from torture allegations at Abu Ghraib...
...Agriculture and Construction: Blame Mother Nature, not the economy, for delayed harvests in the Richmond, Chicago and Minneapolis Districts, all of which experienced unusually wet weather. Corn farmers in the Midwest are still feeling the aftershock of a Nov. 1 bankruptcy in South Dakota (one of the nation's largest ethanol producrs). A global drop in cotton demand hurt the region's cotton farmers, who saw both a decline in prices and one of the smallest harvests in 25 years. Homebuilders in the Sixth District, which includes Alabama, Florida and Georgia, noted historically high inventory numbers, despite Florida's modest...
...shocked as they may have been by Thursday's quake, they were not unprepared. Minutes after the quake, police were on the streets ordering people to evacuate their homes in anticipation of an aftershock. They were quickly joined by hundreds of search-and-rescue volunteers, regularly called on for such varied emergency tasks as fetching tourists trapped in bad weather to pulling vehicles out of glacial crevasses...
...What inspired you to write AfterShock...
...From AfterShock, by Jessie Gruman, PhD, Walker...