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Surviving Disaster Amanda Ripley's piece about surviving disaster was both informative and important [June 23]. But her recounting of the fatal fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club, which I covered as a correspondent for ABC News, omitted two key lessons. One: when someone yells "Fire!" (or anything equally...
You missed an opportunity to promote a critical need: for average Americans to get involved with their local community emergency-response team. Too many people still expect others to take care of them when first responders are overwhelmed in a large disaster. Don Jones, San Jose, Calif., U.S.
In all disasters, our ability to communicate with our social network underlies everything else we may do to survive. My experience providing mental-health services at disaster sites and hospital emergency centers convinced me that I needed to get a ham-radio license. Wayne Rosenfield, Norwich, Conn., U.S.
Blustery weather places equally stringent demands on a golfer's technique. Like serves in tennis or free throws in basketball, golf shots are unusual in that they start from a point of total stillness. In fact, this stillness occurs twice in the swing - once before the take-away of the...
The comandante also downplays factors like the recent death of FARC's founder, Manuel Marulanda, 79, from a heart attack in one of his jungle lairs. "It's a big blow, but it's not a disaster," he says. "It was a natural death - he died of old age. The...