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...most urgent task is to contain the tragedy. Millions have been left homeless, often desperate for food and clean water. The world's largest-ever relief effort is required first to stave off the threat of disease, which could kill as many as the waves, and then to rebuild shattered lives and local economies in the ten worst-affected countries. The efficacy of the aid operation, which demands an all-too-rare level of international cooperation and common purpose, could yet spare tens of thousands more lives. But long-term aid will be required to set those societies back...
...Greece to Turkey in the wake of killer earthquakes. But there are also historical examples, such as the social upheavals that followed massive earthquakes in Nicaragua in 1973, in which natural disasters have sharpened conflict, particularly when aggrieved parties believe there is a bias in the distribution of relief aid. Already there are signs of such a dynamic emerging in Aceh, with some villagers accusing the Indonesian military of directing aid to families of soldiers and its allies in the population. But in Sri Lanka, where the two sides have been locked into an often rocky negotiation process for years...
...Command Post How to Help: Links to relief organizations...
...Physical dependence can occur in three days," says Roland Griffiths, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "Habituation to some of the [stimulating] effects may happen even more rapidly." What passes for a lift, Griffiths warns, may be nothing more than relief from the symptoms of caffeine withdrawal--such as lethargy and headache--which begin after overnight abstinence. The discomfort is probably caused by adenosine-starved brain receptors overreacting when the caffeine is removed and the brain chemical starts flowing again...
...January 2004, Strahan filed a lawsuit with the Superior Court for Middlesex County, naming as defendants Harvard Law School, Iuliano, Riley, and several HUPD officers. The suit asks for relief on seven counts, including violation of the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act and false arrest...