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...city of 3.2 million was rocked by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck offshore, just 24 km to the southwest. Feeling the tremor, thousands of families fled into the streets and rushed for high ground, fearing another tsunami like the one that killed some 170,000 Indonesians in December 2004. "Everybody, young and old, ran up the hill for safety," says Ismambandiah, a middle-aged woman caught in the quake. The fatal waves never came, but the temblor wreaked havoc on Yogyakarta and surrounding communities, killing at least 3,000 and leaving tens of thousands more injured and homeless...
JODI RIWONO, survivor of an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale that struck near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, killing thousands of people and flattening entire villages...
...father of a Harvard junior was struck by a University shuttle in front of Dunster House Wednesday afternoon after he fell while loading his daughter’s belongings into their car. The student, Christine M. Fitzgerald ’07, said that her father, who was rushed to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is recovering well and was released from the hospital last night. “He’s actually now fine,” she said yesterday. “It was a pretty scary event, but he is pretty much just walking away with...
...Library. With the advent of the library’s 24-hour schedule, Lamont has become—especially during the doldrums of reading and exam periods—a place of revelry more than a place of study. The signs were apparent from the beginning. As the clock struck midnight on October 18, 1,500 undergraduates congregated in euphoric glee to celebrate Lamont’s extended hours. A chorus of cheers filled the cramped foyer as burritos flew through the air and starved, studious students leaped for the free Felipe’s. “Party...
...father of a Harvard junior was struck by a University shuttle in front of Dunster House this afternoon after he fell while loading his daughter’s belongings into their...