Word: heroism
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...campaigns urging people to evacuate early are not working. The effectiveness of radio-broadcast public evacuation warnings will also be examined - though with a fire moving that fast, "there's little time to warn people, and little time for people to heed the warning." In the meantime, stories of heroism and loss are spreading through the stunned townships of the peninsula. Wangary general-store owner Sandra Saunders says she has "never seen people look so sad." Many locals are still suffering the painful effects of hours fighting the fire without goggles. But donations of food and clothing are flooding...
...movie. Things get darker as a real dirty truck bomb goes off in the city's center. There is far more devastation than the drill projected. The response is chaotic: workers are trapped in burning offices as rescue crews retreat from the radioactive zone. Panic ensues, and the heroism and derring-do that follow only remind us that the real time for lifesaving action ended long before...
...that his toddler son Hannes Bergstroem had survived the catastrophe. After a Thai villager had rescued the boy from the raging surf, an American couple found him wrapped in blankets on a hill. But the boy's mother remained among the missing. While there were plenty of stories of heroism and sacrifice, there were less comforting tales too. Within a few hours of the tsunami's hitting Thailand, there was widespread looting of wrecked hotels. In five-star hotels on the Indian coast, tourists were locked in rooms as panicked crowds surged through the streets and looters picked jewelry from...
...Hands-On Heroism...
...seemingly ordinary guy, who turns out to be the most colorful bloke in the bunch. "For the most part, character roles are more interesting," Cheadle says. "And more mine." Cheadle, 40, doesn't have Washington's looks. His small, lithe body is not built for Smith-like action heroism. A Cheadle character doesn't rely on swagger; he is the yeoman worker who does his job, does it well and doesn't understand why others make such a fuss...