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...always had in the essential goodness of mankind. The media seem to emphasize only the evil and crookedness of people, as if good and kind gestures are not newsworthy. Evil acts are what get prominent coverage by the press. Chandy John Bangalore, India Islamic radicals-especially those in Indonesia-who think it's cool to attack Western interests and die for their beliefs should seriously rethink their priorities. The people who are providing much of the aid to Indonesia's devastated Banda Aceh are not the Arabs with their petrodollars or Osama bin Laden with his inherited millions...
...Market price, before the tsunami, to rent a house with indoor plumbing in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, for one month...
Since Asia's devastating Dec. 26 tsunami, relief has poured in on an unprecedented scale. But has the world been doing enough? In a TIME/CNN poll conducted by TNS, nearly three-quarters of respondents in Indonesia and India?two of the worst-hit countries?say they are satisfied with the global and local responses to the disaster. In Indonesia, which last week raised its calculation of the national death toll from the tsunami to more than 166,000, 82% of those surveyed expressed satisfaction with the help provided by the international community. In India, which lost more than...
...death toll from the Asian tsunami rose sharply last week when Indonesia's Health Ministry moved 50,000 of the people on its missing list to the fatalities column, bringing the total there to 166,320. Although the waves have long receded, the tsunami still threatens. For survivors in crowded, unsanitary refugee camps, normally treatable illnesses such as cholera, dysentery, malaria and measles can quickly become mass murderers. So great is the danger that Dr. David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's (WHO) head of crisis operations, initially warned that the death toll from disease could rival that...
...meticulous data collection?finding and snuffing out the sparks of disease before they become the fire of an epidemic. "You have a heightened need for information," says Dr. Ronald Waldman, an emergency public-health expert at Columbia University who helped set up the WHO's disease surveillance program in Indonesia. Waldman and his team quickly passed out detailed surveillance forms to all health agencies working in Aceh, asking them to report any cases they found of diseases that could turn into epidemics. The morning after the early warning system was set up, Waldman received a report of measles...