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...utility companies - have come forward with in-kind contributions. French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis' CEO Jean-François Dehecq personally made one such delivery. He and French Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy accompanied 70,000 cases of antibiotic, antibacterial and antidiarrheal drugs on an aid flight to Sri Lanka. Sanofi is donating a further €1 million to relief charities. Sanofi-Aventis' British competitor GlaxoSmithKline, which lost two vacationing employees in the disaster, is giving $3.8 million and more than 2 million doses of drugs, and is prepared to donate 600,000 vials of vaccines to relief operations. Swedish...
Although Kadakia’s own family did not personally suffer from the earthquake or tsunami, he knew of students from Sri Lanka who spent the vacation helping their families and trying desperately to locate loved ones...
...getting unprecedented support from all countries. Right now we are unable to handle it." TILAK RANAVIRAJA, head of Sri Lanka's disaster-management team, describing the aid pouring into the country...
...Challenger and Columbia space-shuttle disasters. SpaceShipOne avoids using brutal force to leave Earth and re-enter the atmosphere, thereby minimizing risks to itself and its crew. SpaceShipOne works its way into space and is the most human-friendly space vehicle man has yet devised. Ashoka Weerakkody Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...many, of course, it will have come too late. In Sri Lanka, village after village was pounded, but in a ravaged land, one place stands out. In Kahawa, on the south coast, the cars of a train lie separated and sprawled on the ground, relief workers and Buddhist monks in saffron robes crawling over them. This is where at least 1,000 people died. Karl Max Hantke, a German with a holiday home overlooking the train station, says that shortly after the first wave hit, he saw a packed train come to a halt, perhaps because its engineer thought stopping...