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...troops was delayed three hours so that President Michelle Bachelet could arrive to see them off. The troops themselves were rather green, according to Peter Murphy Lewis, an American professor of political science at the University of Chile, who flew to the badly hit city of Concepción in a Chilean air force Boeing 707 with 340 of the troops. "Many of the soldiers," he says, "were saying stuff like, 'Wow, we are so high! We are in the clouds!' They had never flown on a plane before ... It was a slightly surreal situation...
...earthquake was going to be enormous. As the President herself told TIME, no one in command really knew how bad the situation was outside of Santiago because of the breakdown in communications and what turned out to be inaccurate information. On Wednesday, travel to and communications with Concepción, the big city closest to the 8.8-magnitude quake's epicenter, was still difficult. Lewis arrived there early Monday evening with the Chilean military to find a city that appeared to be completely abandoned. "It was like a ghost town," he tells TIME, "or a bad apocalyptic Hollywood movie. There...
According to member Talia N. Lavin ’12, the Diggers are committed to creating ways for students to come together and share ideas, feeding already-established passions and sparking new ones. Frustrated with the “intellectual parochialism” she sees at Harvard, Lavin wants people—herself included —to feel free to abandon the “pre-formed self-definition” that makes many scared to venture outside their specialties...
...Staff writer Naveen N. Srivatsa can be reached at srivatsa@fas.harvard.edu...
Angelo Briones, who serves in the Chilean navy, was so distressed by the descriptions of looting in e-mails from his Concepción-based family that he decided leave his post to "go protect my family." While waiting for a space on a transport plane in Santiago, he told TIME, "I told my boss that there was nothing he could say. My family is my blood. I have to go be with them. Thank God he gave me permission. It is a disaster zone there. I am very scared...