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...lack of elevation makes no difference. But occasionally it makes a big one--as it did that Sunday morning late last year when waves triggered by the great tsunami of 2004 spilled over sea walls to flood the city with sand-clouded water and then swept out just as suddenly, leaving behind a visceral feeling of foreboding. For what has the more thoughtful of Malé's 80,000 or so residents worried is that such intrusions will become more frequent, not because of the sudden onslaught of tsunamis but as a result of the slow, relentless effects of global warming...
...Indonesian scientists say the Dec. 26 and March 28 quakes off the coast of Sumatra have increased the area's seismic instability, leading to a sudden spike in activity among the country's volcanoes. Government volcanologist Syamsul Rizal says that although chances of a major eruption are slight, scientists are monitoring seismic activity and gas emissions to avoid another devastating surprise like the tsunami: "We already have an early-warning system in place." Official warnings don't cut much ice with Euis Halimah, who runs a tourist stall on the rim of Tangkuban Parahu's sulfurous crater...
...court. Not far away, another uniformed squad executes a series of elaborate routines with shields. A dozen little girls, clad in shocking-pink leotards, parade forward and wriggle in formation to the tune of Ghostbusters, each with a small black rifle in her hand. And then, all of a sudden, there comes a thumping of feet and a building of intensity and the thunderous eruption of a mass-rally chant: "U.S.A. Fight! Fight! Fight...
Sometimes one commits a rant to paper. That is almost always a mistake. A rant should be transient. It should blow away like sudden, violent weather...
...three-year-old daughter. French authorities, hoping to ascertain what killed him, did not release the body for three weeks. The delay was attributed partly to the fact that since the burial would be in Pakistan, there would be no further opportunity to conduct forensic tests. Inevitably, Bhutto's sudden and unexplained death spawned rumors of political intrigue, including the possibility that he had been murdered...