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...Numbers 8,844.38 m Height of Mount Everest, according to new measurements released last week 3.66 m Height difference compared with measurements taken 30 years ago, making the mountain shorter than previously thought...
...victims, but neither country's response was adequate to the task. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf waited nearly 30 hours after the quake hit before requesting additional support from the U.S. in the form of eight military helicopters that could ferry aid to the quake region. In the Indian Kashmirian mountain village of Skee, residents received no help for five days, even though it overlooks a base for thousands of Indian troops. Army spokesman Colonel Hemant Juneja told TIME that helicopter crews were evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians alike on the basis of the severity of their injuries alone. But several...
...smear, it took the army three days to arrive, even though its base is only 20 miles away. When troops finally converged on a collapsed school building to help dig out some 200 students trapped inside, enraged parents hurled stones at the soldiers. As choppers touched down in wrecked mountain hamlets, survivors mobbed the crews and fought one another for blankets and biscuits. Some Pakistani officials reported that several times stranded earthquake victims clung to a chopper as it lifted off, nearly causing it to crash...
...GROWING CRISIS ? Officials expect the final death toll to top 50,000 as rescuers reach more remote mountain villages ? With winter only a few weeks away, relief workers are scrambling to find shelter for the estimated 2 million people made homeless ? Pakistan's healthcare facilities are strained to the limit. Thousands of injured people are without shelter or treatment, and officials fear large outbreaks of disease, particularly measles ? Many roads into the high mountains are wiped out, and heavy rain grounds some relief flights, further slowing efforts to reach survivors...
...completed five of 13 attempts for 63 yards. Marcus Slayton rushed for 49 yards.LEHIGH 28, YALE 21 (0T)BETHLEHEM, Pa.—Eric Rath bulled into the end zone from the six-yard line early in overtime and Lehigh’s defense held on to give the Mountain Hawks a 28-21 win over Yale on Saturday.After Rath opened the overtime with the touchdown run for Lehigh (4-2), the Mountain Hawks gave up a first down to the Bulldogs before forcing Yale’s Jeff Mroz into three straight incompletions to end the game.With starting quarterback...