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...stronghold of Adhamiya on their way to the bridge. And when disaster struck, its residents rushed to the rescue. Many jumped into the Tigris River to pull out pilgrims who had leaped (or fallen) off the bridge; others took injured and exhausted pilgrims into their homes, providing food and shelter until emergency crews arrived. Moir al-Obaidy, a construction worker, and other residents grabbed ladders and slides from a nearby children's playground and used them to help pilgrims off the bridge. "We took beds from a [Sunni] seminary to carry injured people," he said...
...space will also reach us in rural Africa, where poverty, disease and hunger are making life for the majority of people not worth living. How we wish that the billions of dollars spent on the Discovery's journey had been given to Africa to provide safe drinking water, education, shelter and employment to the millions who are in need. But at least we can acknowledge the benefits from past space explorations that we are all now enjoying. Peter Kwame Boateng East London, South Africa The whole enlightened world was awaiting most apprehensively the safe return of the Discovery...
...offer any untenable defenses of the federal response and he didn't say anything too off key like he did last time when he vowed to rebuild Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott's home and fondly recalled his partying days in New Orleans. Bush visited victims of Katrina at a shelter near Baton Rouge, where he was joined by T.D. Jakes, the charismatic African-American religious broadcaster. The President met with emergency managers in Baton Rouge and in Mississippi as well...
JASON DEFESS, a National Guard sergeant and Iraq war veteran, on the abysmal hurricane shelter at the New Orleans Superdome...
...million Number of children in Asia, out of 1.27 billion, who lack access to at least one basic human need?food, potable water, health care or shelter?according to a report by development agency Plan 350 million Number of Asian children without access to two or more basic human needs, twice as many as in sub-Saharan Africa...