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Focusing on more pressing issues than counting bodies, Mozambique has not updated the official death toll for more than a week, when it was still at only 150, but estimates cite several thousand deaths. And another cyclone looming off the coast of Mozambique as well as outbreaks of disease will most likely cost even more lives...
...even more disturbing is the juxtaposition of these two disasters. North Carolina lost fifty of its residents, Mozambique a few thousand. Floyd caused tens of thousands of people to spend nights at shelters or with relatives and friends; the catastrophe in Mozambique resulted in hundreds of thousands of displaced people. Yet, the damage estimate for Floyd easily topped a billion dollars. Mozambique's president estimated the aid his country would need over the next year to be approximately $250 million...
...perfect world, we would have paid the 75 [thousand dollars] for George," Leonard said. "In the real world, 15 for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy...
Created in October 1999 at a University of Pennsylvania "Ecoconference," Ecopledge claims to have gathered between 10 and 15 thousand signatures from students who promise not to join the companies listed on the web site...
...overthrew in his 1973 coup - he won't be greeted as a national hero. Neither president-elect Ricardo Lagos nor outgoing President Eduardo Frei will be at the airport, and the general is expected to be welcomed by a small delegation of military officers, a marching band, a few thousand of his most fervent supporters and a packed media gallery...