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Five students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) won a design contest for their plan to develop tsunami-safe housing in areas struck by the December 2004 disaster. A prototype of their award-winning design is slated to be built in Sri Lanka by November...
Ratti contacted the Buddhist chaplain at MIT, who is also a member of a Buddhist organization in Sri Lanka, and arranged for a prototype of the student’s design to be built as a community center in Sri Lanka...
...near Osaka on April 25, Japan's worst rail disaster since 1963 90 sec. Amount of time the train was behind schedule, which investigators suspect prompted the driver to accelerate to dangerous speeds to catch up 37 Number of people killed when a train hit a passenger bus in Sri Lanka on April 27; officials believe the bus driver was racing another bus when he cut in front of the train...
...SRI LANKA Peace Talks and Terror Tactics...
After more than two years of civil strife that has led to some 2,000 deaths, tentative steps were taken last week toward a settlement between Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist movements and the government of President Junius Jayewardene. Under pressure from India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the island nation's warring factions began peace talks in Thimbu, capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Shortly afterward the government, which is dominated by Sri Lanka's 70% majority of Sinhalese Buddhists, lifted nighttime curfews imposed on five northern districts heavily populated by Tamil-speaking Hindus. The government also released...