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...consequences. "You could have 100 tsunamis over the next three years," warns Omar Nawaz, coordinating officer for the World Tourism Organizations's tsunami task force. "That is way too long to wait." Nawaz helped develop a tsunami early-warning system in Sri Lanka, which utilizes temples and churches to alert the public. "In Sri Lanka the system is not very sophisticated but at least we have a plan," he added. "We learned our lesson, but it seems that Indonesia...
...Indeed, the dissemination of quake warnings and possible tsunamis stands at the heart of accusations that Indonesia's Minister of Research and Technology, which heads development of the country's tsunami early warning system, failed to alert residents for fear of creating widespread panic. An official from the ministry denies blame for the failure and says the warning received from the PTWC was information on a "non-destructive" earthquake, not a tsunami. "There was a warning but not of a tsunami, and it would be irrelevant to send the warning to the minister because he is not in charge...
...prove any of this was politically motivated? Of course not. But that's the magic of the terror-alert song and dance. There's no way to know. All the key facts are veiled in secrecy, as they must be. So it's impossible to know from the outside whether it's on the level or not. But with another election looming, it seems we're about to get a bunch of new chances to wonder...
...only have I tested the latest products from most of the biggest manufacturers, but over this past holiday weekend, I put around 1,200 miles on my car-from the concrete twists and turns of New Jersey to the back country roads of Indiana. The Garmin stayed alert through it all, telling me how to get to my destinations, and along the way helping me find hotels, grocery stores and Kmarts I didn't know existed...
...their targets by arrays of satellites and shipboard sensors all linked through a Colorado command center. The Pentagon wants 48 interceptors by 2011, including 10 in Europe - the Czech Republic and Poland are likely sites - oriented toward any threat from Iran. While the system generally isn't on full alert - meaning ready to fire its interceptors - Pentagon officials said last week the system had been cranked up to monitor, and if necessary, respond to, a possible North Korean launch headed toward...