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...cell phones or even Internet warnings," says Arthur Lerner-Lam, director of the Center for Hazards and Risk Research at Columbia University. "The public has to be aware of what to do, and that's education." In Indonesia, such educational programs are only in place on Sumatra, which bore the brunt of the 2004 tsunami, and even there, only pockets of the island would be prepared if a wave hit tomorrow. "The rest of the country is still very vulnerable," says Pariatmono, coordinator for the development of the tsunami-warning system...
...mention one of the greatest reasons for India's economic success: of the country's hundreds of languages, the one spoken in common by the upcoming generation is English. China is just now catching on to the necessity of learning English. Just wait until China starts teaching English full bore! Are you listening, Mexico? Francis Cartier Pacific Grove, California, U.S. Your story "Bombay's boom" provided an authentic encounter with the new Bombay. It is hard to believe that so many things are happening there. But Bombay is booming only because the rest of India is booming. The city...
...Bush Administration has been singularly inept at making the small-bore calibrations necessary to fight the Iraqi insurgency-and so a political opportunity exists for Democrats to support something specific and useful in Iraq. They could call on the President to make coin-and support for operations like Forward Together-the U.S. military's highest priority. "It would make a great deal of sense for us to do that," says Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, a West Point graduate and leading Democratic expert on military affairs. "This Administration has never embraced real solutions to practical problems on the ground...
...Muslim texts, including the way he brushed his teeth and wore his sandals. Lacking formal religious training, he prayed incessantly and consulted frequently with religious advisers--attempts, perhaps, to shed his murderous past and reinvent himself as a savior of Islam. But he never got the chance. U.S. forces bore in on al-Zarqawi by tracking his spiritual adviser Sheik Abdul-Rahman, a man the terrorist may have hoped would help guide him toward a new life. The U.S., and death, found him instead...
...managed to slide by the Golden Knights in three games in the ECAC quarterfinals, going on to upset No. 1-seeded St. Lawrence in the semifinal and take home the conference championship and an automatic NCAA berth. The pair of high-pressure goals capped a season in which Raimondi bore much of the offensive burden for the Crimson. She led the team with an average of 1.05 points per game—the 28th-best mark in the country. And when the final buzzer on her career sounded as the Crimson fell to UNH in the Frozen Eight, Raimondi?...