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Myton's assessment reflects a 620-page operating manual that guides relief teams through the particulars of delivering the basics to those most in need. CARE's new manual, called the Emergency Toolkit, covers everything from preparedness planning and standard procedures to protocols for disaster response and the components of an effective emergency team...
...Given that no one fully understands the powerful subterranean engine powering Lusi, efforts to stop it have proven predictably ineffectual. Two relief wells intended to reduce pressure inside the original well have failed. Early last year, scientists from Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology came up with a more novel idea: dropping thousands of concrete balls, linked with chains like a string of pearls, into the Big Hole. The idea was to bleed off pressure inside the volcano slowly enough so that Lusi wouldn't simply erupt elsewhere - or shoot the concrete balls back out like a cannon. Satria Bijaksana...
...Going with the Flow"] Lusi may, in fact, be unstoppable. In 1979, the oil company Shell set off a similar eruption while drilling off the shore of Brunei. That mudflow took 20 years and 20 relief wells to halt, according to Mark Tingay, a geologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Lusi may eventually choke itself as mud clogs its interior plumbing. But if left to die on its own, Davies estimates that it could continue to erupt for years, and perhaps even decades. Hardi Prasetyo, deputy head of the new government team in charge of Lusi, says that...
...care. Not to mention one young star who shouldn't be dead, Heath Ledger, and one who might've been, Owen Wilson. (He showed up to read an intro.) Surrounded by these dour subjects, Stewart did his best to keep the tone light. He alluded to the town's relief over the end of the writers' strike by saying, "Welcome to the make-up sex." He confided to the viewing audience what the crowd at the Kodak Theatre does during commercial breaks: "Mostly we sit here making catty remarks about how you look at home." After making the mandatory joke...
...Writer’s Guild of America settled their strike with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers two weeks ago, millions around the country rejoiced at the prospect of new episodes of their favorite shows finally returning to television. But no one heaved a larger sigh of relief than Sid Ganis, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Had the strike continued, Ganis would have been charged with the awkward task of orchestrating an Academy Awards ceremony devoid of writers and of actors. Anyone who watched Jon Stewart struggle without his writers...