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Victims Mourned FRANCE President Jacques Chirac and other government officials attended the mass funeral of 57 victims of the heat wave in August who had not been claimed by relatives. Overall, more than 11,400 perished. Chirac was criticized for failing to return from vacation to tackle the crisis...
...bomb exploded below the office of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Brazilian who was head of the U.N.'s mission in Iraq and one of the world's most respected diplomats. His corner of the building collapsed upon itself. U.S. soldiers, stripping down to T shirts in the heat, crawled into tiny crevices and under overhanging concrete slabs, washing away the dust from faces on the bodies they found, calling upon a U.N. official to identify the dead. By the end of the week, the death count had risen to 22, Vieira de Mello among them. Scores more were wounded...
...Many fragile people died alone in their homes. These dramas again shed light on the solitude of many of our aged or handicapped citizens." JACQUES CHIRAC, French President, on as many as 10,000 deaths caused by a summer heat wave. Most of the victims were older than...
...turn. The borrowed 1999 Mercedes Benz E55 AMG I was driving purred with anticipation. But I wasn't exactly purring--I'd never driven as fast for as long as I was about to. Sweat from anxiety, not heat, trickled inside my full-body racing suit. What the hell was I doing...
...RESIGNED. Lucien Abenhaim, 52, French Surgeon-General, after an estimated 10,000 French died in the recent European heat wave, in Paris. Health Minister Jean-Fran?ois Mattei said Abenha?m failed "to provide us with the information and warning signal that we should have...