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...husband in bed with her aunt. "It was bad enough that it happened," Springer says, "but they were all there talking about it on national TV! It's hard to see why people do this, but they do." The shows find their guests with newspaper and magazine ads and toll-free numbers flashed onscreen. There is even a National Talk Show Guest Registry, a data base used by many talk shows that lists 2,400 people who have stories or problems they think would make good talk-show fodder. Apparently the chance for a moment of TV fame...
...disaster on the scale of the Japan earthquake is a human tragedy, but for journalists it also becomes a mundane problem of logistics. When the first reports came in from Kobe last Tuesday, Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond dispatched reporter Irene Kunii to the scene. As the death toll rose by dozens an hour, Desmond packed extra sweaters and computer batteries and headed south himself, with photographer Greg Davis and interpreter Yoshihiko Asai. They could fly only as close as Osaka, where roads were clogged with relief-effort vehicles and people hoping to rescue family members...
...encouraging note was that a new tracking system -- installed during the two years since the last killer flood took seven lives in Southern California and caused $88 million in damage -- gave residents plenty of notice this time, up to 12 hours, and may have kept down the toll in human lives. But little could be done about property; sandbags are only so effective...
Earthquake experts now say that the quake in Western Japan is the deadliest to hit that country in 70 years. The death toll has now surpassed 4,000 and hundreds who are still missing are feared dead. By comparison, a 1928 quake in Fukui killed 3,769 people. Today, new fires flared in the city of Kobe as rescuers continued the monumental task of sifting through the wreckage for survivors. Six U.S. Air Force planes delivered 15,000 blankets to Kobe. The Japanese government has allocated $1 billion for earthquake relief and rebuilding. Each family that lost its head...
...final toll in the two-day shooting spree was two dead and five wounded. Were it not for security guard Richard Seron's quick reflexes, the casualties could have been much higher: Salvi's abandoned satchel also contained a second gun and 700 rounds of ammunition...