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...rebalance some cosmic scale, another wave is washing over South Asia like none the world has ever seen. The worst disaster in memory has evoked the greatest outpouring of charity. "Just as we see the power of nature to destroy, we have seen the power of human compassion to build," said Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. The pledges coming in to the U.N. for tsunami relief already surpass all the relief money received in 2004 for the top 20 disasters combined. The politics of pity is never pure, so there was a kind of global competition...
...important thing we have learned from the recent calamity that ravaged our country is how we can manage to build our lives again. It's a hard lesson. If we continue damaging our environment, however, other disasters will remind us that nature's powerful wrath can destroy the helpless. Junjun Carballo Silay City, the Philippines
...noting that in science, credit seldom belongs to one person alone. Thompson is broadening his focus to include other components of the climate system, notably the AO-like Antarctic Oscillation, whose behavior, he thinks, has been profoundly influenced by the leakage into the stratosphere of man-made compounds that destroy the ozone. Result: wind patterns are keeping the white continent's interior bitterly cold while allowing the outlying peninsula to warm. The young researcher may not be playing guitar for a living, but he has found new ways to rock the world. --By J. Madeleine Nash
...agit-doc. They ranged from specifically anti-Dubya tracts like ?Bush?s Brain? (about Presidential Advisor Karl Rove) and ?Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War? (military and intelligence nabobs deconstructing the Bush war rationale) to ?The Hunting of the President? (detailing the Right?s long campaign to destroy Bill Clinton). They covered the media?s coverage of Iraq in ?Control Room? (a sympathetic look at the Arab news channel Al Jazeera during Operation Iraqi Freedom) and ?Outfoxed? (a searing attack on Rupert Murdoch?s Fox News Channel).. The genre could expand to embrace ?The Corporation,? a scholarly, skeptical...
That was before Extreme Makeover: Home Edition found her. Home Edition brought in its army of designers, led by bullhorn-wielding host Ty Pennington, to do what it does best: destroy a home in order to save it. After shipping Harris and kin off for a week's vacation in Carlsbad, Calif., 100 workers and neighbors tore her home down to the foundation and built a new, bigger one. They replaced the Christmas toys and donated appliances, mattresses and landscaping to her flood-stricken neighbors. They even threw in a basketball court for the neighborhood kids...