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...Staying Safe from Wildfires As a wildland firefighter for 40-plus years, I must strongly disagree with your statement in "Postcard: Santa Barbara" that "you can no more prepare for [wildfires] than for a sudden death" [July 21]. Homeowners can do much to reduce the risk of "sudden death" from a wildfire. Site selection, roofing and siding materials, landscaping plants, defensible space around the home - all these factors are well-known ways to mitigate much of the risk associated with living in the wildland-urban interface. For great material on helping keep wildfires in the wild, check out firewise.org. There...
...Staying Safe from Wildfires...
Olympus MJU 1030 The Olympus MJU 1030 ($500) is crushproof up to 220 lbs. (100 kg), so even if a baby elephant stands on it, your safari snaps may still be safe. It can also endure more everyday dangers, including submergence in 32.8 ft. (10 m) of water. www.olympus-global.com
Radovan Karadzic's last lair wasn't a cave or a safe house; no secret bolt-holes or special security details shielded him. Instead, the former Bosnian Serb leader, one of the world's most wanted men, was hiding in plain view amid the drab, anonymous housing blocks of New Belgrade, a suburb of the Serbian capital. He was nabbed not by NATO, whose forces had spent 12 years in a vain and sometimes desultory search for him, but by the security forces of Serbia - the country whose designs for grandeur he had so ardently tried to further...
...ethnic-cleansing campaign that left many more homeless. The prosecution also claims Karadzic set up concentration camps in which non-Serbs were tortured, murdered and raped. The indictment was later amended to include genocide charges linked to the massacre of almost 8,000 men and boys in the U.N. "safe area" of Srebrenica in July...