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...Korea, even natural disasters are shrouded in mystery. With international aid groups struggling to determine the extent of damage caused by July's torrential rains and floods, Seoul-based NGO Good Friends last week reported that the disaster left more than 54,700 dead or missing and 2.5 million homeless?a startling contradiction of Pyongyang's claim that "hundreds" were dead. Good Friends also warned that large areas of farmland were washed out, raising the specter of another famine, reminiscent of the one that cost the lives of as many as 2 million North Koreans in the mid-1990s...
...What's your demographic like? The demographic of the readers is different than the demographic of the speakers. The audience of the blog is largely a yuppie-type crowd. A lot of the great quotes come from non-yuppies, especially the homeless. The best quotes are from the intersection of these different socioeconomic classes in New York. OHinLA would be boring because it would be about celebrities and everyone is in their car. But in New York you have the yuppie standing right next to the ranting homeless man on the subway platform. No matter how much money you have...
...York that some people have been jumping into public fountains. Because nothing beats the heat like a nice, refreshing dip in some homeless guy's urine." CONAN O'BRIEN...
...technology and materials with the North. South Korea is holding back rice and fertilizer aid; Japan is preparing to impose its own economic sanctions including tough restrictions on high-tech exports to the North. Then Typhoon Ewiniar battered one-third of the country, leaving upward of 60,000 villagers homeless...
...Without End According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, there are an estimated 200,000 homeless veterans in the U.S., 10% of whom fought in the current conflict in Iraq or the 1991 Gulf War. About 40% fought in Vietnam. In a July 13, 1981, cover story, TIME reported on the troubled survivors of a war that the U.S. had been trying to forget...