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...rest of my life. After explaining this to the counselor, she reassured me that I could explore all my options. The familiar wave of excitement and impatience coursed through me.Someday, I’ll be living the relaxed life of a 70-year-old Jewish grandmother in Boynton Beach, Fla., with all the time I want to take walks, read books, and lounge in the sun. But for now, I crave pressure and intensity. Contrary to America’s stereotypical slacker college lifestyle, many of my Harvard peers and I thrive because of our refusal to ease...
Like thousands of Indonesians, Aesih Irawan went to the beach in west Java on Monday to have some fun with her friends. At her friend's house, near Pangandaran beach, she was drinking iced tea and watching TV when suddenly water came crashing through the living room. "Before I knew it I was underwater," recalls the 27-year-old housewife and mother of one. "There was no warning and we didn't even feel the earthquake...
...Aesih heard people on the beach screaming that the water was rising, but there were no sirens, or messages on TV. For her and thousands of others, the tsunami that occurred 28 minutes after the earthquake on Monday came without warning. More than 20,000 families were displaced, thousands injured and more than 500 killed. Estimates of the physical damage are still being calculated, but dozens of hotels and restaurants were lost in what was once one of the country's top tourist destinations...
...tsunami that surprised Aesih (who survived after being tangled in cable and carried hundreds of yards down the beach) and so many other Indonesians revived questions about the country's early-warning system. Indonesian officials admit that no tsunami early warning system will be in place until the end of 2008, but deny that no warning was issued. "We issued a warning about the quake but not a tsunami," says Fauzi (he uses only one name), head of the Meterology and Geophysics Agency's technical department for tsunamis. He said the agency received an e-mail from the Pacific Tsunami...
...Aesih came back to see if her friends were OK (one survived, another is still missing) that unpreparedness was all too evident. Nothing remained of her friend's house, and the beach was now littered with debris as far as the eye could see. "I am very happy to be alive," she says. "But every time I feel an aftershock I feel like that might change." As the country limps from one natural disaster to the next, millions of Indonesians will remain on edge...