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...body bag and clatters away. It takes a while before one of the soldiers dares to zip open the body bag. It's full of imported mineral-water bottles and instant meals of beef teriyaki and cheese tortellini but no blankets to protect against the chill. Later, a civil-affairs officer, Major Alan McKewan, grabs the body bag and crawls inside to sleep...
...tsunami. Around 350 people died, many of them tourists sleeping off an all-night Christmas full-moon party. Thus, in a few minutes, the sea destroyed the very world that it had built. But surfers are a resilient lot. Before the tsunami, many braved Sri Lanka's civil war and Arugam Bay's previous lack of power or telephones to ride its magnificent waves. So even though the area is still recovering, with some buildings little more than piles of rubble, the surfers are back, many helping (both physically and financially) to rebuild homes and the hotels and restaurants they...
DIED. CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY, 84, trailblazing lawyer, New York State Senator and federal judge who helped fight many of the most significant civil rights battles in U.S. history; in New York City. The first black woman appointed to the federal bench, by Lyndon Johnson in 1966, she received funds for college after a local philanthropist, Clarence Blakeslee, heard the then teenager speak at a community center. As a young lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she worked for two decades, she assisted Thurgood Marshall in preparing the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education...
...Katrina was soul-stirring. Judging by the many natural disasters the world has recently witnessed, one can only conclude that global warming is taking a heavy toll on the earth. For those of us who live in developing nations like India?where people have to contend with ill-equipped civil authorities during natural disasters?it was a stupefying revelation that the U.S. has the same problems in coping with nature's fury. Perhaps the world's richest nation should channel its plentiful resources into serving its people rather than pursuing military goals. Nalini Vijayaraghavan Madras, India...
...indication of her stance on gay rights comes from this questionaire from the Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition of Dallas Miers filled out while running for the Dallas City Council in 1989. In it, she supported full civil rights for gays and lesbians and backed AIDS education programs for the city of Dallas. (Source: Quorumreport.com...