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...think I can hold out much longer." When night fell in Dujiangyan, a loudspeaker truck cruised the streets broadcasting the same message: "Please stay calm. The State Council, the Central Committee, and the Sichuan, Chengdu and Dujiangyan governments are trying their best to help. Earthquakes are not something that mankind can avoid." Sadly not. But bungled relief operations are, and Beijing is pulling out all the stops to ensure that this time it doesn't repeat past mistakes...
Food For Thought As we all face global warming, the concept of climate adaptation [May 5] should become universal. Let's not fool ourselves: we won't stop global warming, not in this century. Adaptation to climate change is the key to mankind's future and survival. While continuing our efforts to curb emissions, we should focus research and money on how to move agriculture north (Canada, Scandinavia, Siberia), fight tropical diseases as they spread to our higher latitudes, avoid and tax excessive air-conditioning, plan for shorter Arctic shipping - do everything to adapt to warmer temperatures...
...they continue. As they stood in the street, their debate illuminated only by car lights, a loudspeaker truck cruised by with a message: "Please stay calm. The State Council, the Central Committee, the Sichuan, Chengdu and Dujiangyan governments are trying their best to help. Earthquakes are not something that mankind can avoid...
...system was disrupted for several months. Some of the mines were flooded, and thousands of workers were trapped in the shafts. Caltech's George W, Housner, a specialist in quakeproof engineering who headed the American group, termed the Tangshan event "the greatest earthquake disaster in the history of mankind." Despite their tremendous losses, the Chinese have faced the task of reconstruction with stoic determination. Today much of the city's industry is reportedly back in operation, and officials expect to finish rebuilding Tangshan...
...succeeded John Paul II in 2005, López Trujillo was deeply wary of leftist liberation theology and its influence on Latin American Catholicism. "I don't believe that in Latin America, Marxism has any possibilities," he said in the 1970s. "Nor does a capitalism that turns its back on mankind...