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Members of the IRC and HCS said Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) and Yard Operations quickly responded to the flood scene. “FMO was there with industrial fans and dehumidifiers within half an hour,” van Stolk-Riley said...
...studying for finals by calculating how many points of ERA Shea Stadium will save Pedro Martinez or how many days Randy Johnson will spend on the DL in ‘05, crack open a beer for Curt Flood, the patron saint of free agents. If he hadn’t courageously challenged the reserve clause in his contract in 1970, players might still be restricted to spending their entire career with one team...
...thing, not all the displaced children are necessarily orphans. Some newly single parents may have dropped off their kids at shelters as they surveyed the ruins of their houses and lives. Other parents may still be alive but were separated from their children during the chaos of the flood. "For every story about an orphan," says Paul Deveril, a UNICEF project officer in India, "there's also a story about a parent searching for their child." Then, too, child-welfare experts strive to place orphans in new homes within their extended families and communities. "The children have been through...
...donated $934,000 to Britain's Disasters Emergency Committee and provided 150 volunteers to answer the charity consortium's phones. Among Europe's biggest corporate donors is Germany's Deutsche Bank, which wrote a check to a relief fund for €10 million. Deeply moved upon his return from flood-damaged regions of India on Jan. 4, chief executive Josef Ackermann learned that the bank's employees had already collected more than €1 million in donations. "I proposed to the board that in this extreme situation, let us do something extraordinary," Ackermann says. "Let's top off the employee...
...world, crises like global warming that demand a worldwide response are not getting the attention or action they deserve. The tsunami highlighted how many people, particularly in the third world, live in low-lying areas near the ocean. The rise in sea levels caused by global warming threatens to flood these low-lying areas around the world permanently, causing massive dislocations of people and unimaginable loss of property. And that is just one of the dire consequences of global warming. In the long run, the gradual heating of the planet will change weather patterns and increase mortality...