Word: reliefer
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...enjoyed in life, which the mingqi were designed to provide. The Cernuschi displays a vast array of these once-buried companions - dancers, musicians, cooks, soldiers and guardians, as well as ducks, birds and horses. These animated figures, along with the museum's glazed models of forts and bas-relief fragments from tomb walls, provide an extraordinary glimpse of Chinese life some 2,000 years ago: how people dressed, what weapons they carried, what kinds of houses they lived in. One well-modeled terra-cotta cook is intently scaling fish at his workbench. His eyes are fixed, his sleeves are rolled...
...easy to assign blame for the Katrina relief fiasco - there are plenty of targets. It is much harder to accept responsibility. What went wrong? The American people persist in voting for political demagogues who promise them continued services for lower taxes. Government is not, despite what former President Ronald Reagan claimed, the problem. Nor is it, as others have asserted, a beast that must be starved. Government is society's means to collectively address problems that are too large or costly for individuals to handle. In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve. By shortsightedly choosing lower taxes...
When the Indian Ocean tsunami struck Southeast Asia last December, private citizens went into action without waiting for instruction. We organized medical teams and obtained relief supplies for victims. New Orleans was left in a mess for so long because of a lack of proper and timely leadership. Vichit Phanumphai Bangkok...
...heard from both camps. "These guys are going to slaughter each other." What's left of the G.O.P. leadership, already beset by a raft of other political problems, was trying to figure out how to salvage the ambitious legislative agenda of more tax cuts, hurricane help and gas-price relief that they want to carry them to next year's midterm elections--a more difficult challenge with the sidelining of the man who had so determinedly pulled off many of their close victories...
...human rights analysis with everybody in the audience,” Leaning, a faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), said in an interview.To date, Katrina has affected a region the size of the United Kingdom. Well more than 100,000 victims of flooding, over-crowded relief sites, and nationwide redistribution are in need of aid. Even so, new problems continue to emerge.David Henderson, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, spoke about the mental health of hurricane victims, which he said is often marginalized during disasters. Nevertheless, he said that complete hurricane recovery will necessarily entail work...