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...German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp AG, which has units in India and Thailand, says it will spend up to €2.5 million rebuilding hard-hit villages in Madras, India, and near Khao Lak beach in Phuket, Thailand. The company will also build an orphanage in each country and secure financing for the psychological care of youngsters there. "We want to show that we feel connected to these countries in which we have been active for decades," says ThyssenKrupp CEO Ekkehard Schulz. British American Tobacco's Sri Lankan division, Ceylon Tobacco Company, has pledged to rebuild a destroyed village, too. British American Tobacco...
DIED. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, 80, trailblazing Congresswoman and candidate for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination; in Ormond Beach, Fla. The first black woman to sit in Congress, she championed such concerns of her underprivileged Brooklyn constituency as day-care funding and minimum wages for domestic workers. Describing herself as "unbought and unbossed," she criticized Congress as being run by "a small group of old men" and protested the "petrified" seniority system that initially placed her on the Agriculture Committee...
Danger from afar A tsunami triggered by an Alaskan earthquake in 1964 swept four children off a beach in Newport, Ore. It also claimed 12 lives in Northern California...
...sent me high), best known for exploring a happy state of mind called flow, the feeling of complete engagement in a creative or playful activity familiar to athletes, musicians, video-game enthusiasts--almost anyone who loses himself in a favorite pursuit. By the end of their week at the beach, the three had plans for the first-ever conference on positive psychology, to be held in Akumal a year later--it was to become an annual event--and a strategy for recruiting young talent to the nascent field. Within a few months, Seligman, who has a talent for popularizing...
...romantic relationships it can yield. And for now I’ll just hope that in the long run, we will use our relative independence to our—and our descendents’—advantage. And if not, well, we’ll always have the beach...