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...vast flooding triggered by Ketsana was largely the result of insufficient drainage. In fact, the U.N. estimates that when equivalent populations in the Philippines and Japan endure the same number of tropical cyclones each year, 17 times more people perish in the Philippines than in Japan. The higher death tolls feed a vicious cycle: constantly struggling to recover from the latest storm or quake, developing countries have a harder time affording the disaster-prevention measures needed to mitigate nature's wrath. (See pictures of the deadly quake devastating west Indonesia...
...brokenhearted, did what any other mother would--or should--do when her child is killed in an illegal and immoral war: she went on a search for the truth. Mullen, an Iowa homemaker who died on Oct. 2 at 92, spent more than two decades probing her son's death. In 1995 she published her findings in a book called Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir, which painted a scathing portrait of a U.S. military that stonewalled her efforts to investigate the episode. "I think she'll be remembered as somebody who asked a lot of questions, somebody who wouldn...
...trouble finding applause. By the time she returned to her homeland in 1982, mere months before the dictatorship collapsed, she had captivated audiences on five continents. And while she pined for the sights and smells of her childhood--even those that evoked memories of the death, pain and poverty she witnessed--her time in exile exposed her to entirely new styles of music. Jazz, pop and rock 'n' roll complemented her roots in Andean and tango rhythms and boosted a six-decade career in which she performed with singers as diverse as Luciano Pavarotti, Ray Charles, Shakira and Joan Baez...
There is no doubt that Sartre’s original adaptation of the Greek mythology is brilliant. The play tells the story of Orestes and his sister. After an affair between their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus results in the death of their father Agamemnon, the siblings avenge him by killing the responsible couple, who had taken over the kingdom of Argos, imposing their guilt upon the people in the form of perpetual mourning and black clothing. Sartre cleverly ties this in with existentialism. The guilt does not belong to the people but they are forced to express...
Claire represents the stereotypical obnoxious sister. As the older sibling, she moves away to New York City, away from the chaos of her father’s illness. Yet when she returns after his death to take care of her sister, she attempts to take over the situation, of which she knows nothing about...