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...more than 75,000 and injured more than 128,000. It also left some 3.5 million people without livelihoods, food or homes. Short on supplies, and with time and nature working against them, aid workers are struggling to protect those survivors and prevent further deaths. "This is a perfect storm of relief obstructions," says Thomas Miller, chief executive of Plan International, an aid agency helping children. "You have landslides, snow and no roads to reach the people way up in the mountains." Further complicating relief efforts is the danger that militant Islamic groups operating from camps in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir...
...trouble was, for months, the UNHCR had declined to talk directly to the protesters in the garden. The Sudanese minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Ahmed Korti, on a visit to Cairo, urged the Sudanese to return home. All to no avail. At one point, the refugees threatened to storm the U.N. office, leading Egyptian riot police to seal off a street along the garden. But the refugees stayed on. ?We live here and we will die here,? read signs they posted in the garden...
...ceiling of Richard Jones' house in Biloxi, Miss., had just caved in, revealing that his roof had been torn away. That was the good news. Half a mile away on that afternoon of Aug. 29, as Hurricane Katrina sent up 30-ft. storm surges, Jones, 53, knew a flood was raging in from the Bay of Biloxi because the water was rising rapidly in the storm drain on his street. But what worried the high school history teacher more was the debris clogging a larger storm drain nearby, part of a network designed to draw off flooding from Biloxi...
...what I thought needed to be done for my neighbors and my house, and I had the skill and equipment to do it." Jones' home suffered $30,000 in damage and has had to have its roof replaced. Parker says the bravery is typical of Jones, who after the storm called his brother in Florida to ask him to deliver ice, steaks and other supplies to the neighborhood. "During normal times, you could not ask for a better neighbor," she says. "But what he got out and did was beyond a good neighbor. We were all amazed and very, very...