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...Elementary School, which he attended. Glen Este High School, from which Maupin graduated in 2001, has become a shrine of hope. Hundreds of red, white and blue plastic cups are stuck into chain-link fencing, spelling out his name and framing his picture. The winter weather has taken a toll on the yellow ribbons in town, but residents say replacements will come with the spring, along with nature's yellow displays of daffodils and forsythia. "People have a tendency to forget," concedes Keith Maupin, Matt's father. "We're not going to let that happen...
Patong beach, on the western coast of Phuket, Thailand, is the place to which many international journalists scrambled in order to report on the tsunami that hit Asia on Dec. 26. The death toll on the island numbered more than 200, at least half of them foreign tourists. Gradually, the scale of the destruction in Indonesia?which was home to some two-thirds of those killed by the tsunami?trickled into the world's newspapers and onto TV screens. But in those early moments after the disaster, it was the harrowing images transmitted from the most famous beach on Thailand...
...woes of those hit on Dec. 26. "The best help that foreigners can give to the Maldives is to come and visit us," says Abdulla Mausoom, director of the Maldives Tourism Promotion Board. "They should understand that tourism is very important to our economy." Although the death toll in the Maldives was relatively low?82 people, including three British tourists?the damage was severe. Of the 200 inhabited islands in the Maldives, 13 had to be evacuated completely; many local homes and fishing boats were lost. Yet more than three-quarters of the Maldives' 84 resorts are today open...
...This week for the most part we’ve tried to recover from what was physically and emotionally a great toll Monday night,” Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91. “We just had to refocus. It’s tough to complain when you win five out of six, but certainly that was one that we really wanted...
...Reid explains. “It's harder to tell a joke, it’s harder to be funny than it is to be mad or scared.” Which means the grueling process of filming My Boss’s Daughter took more of a toll on the starlet than the shoot-’em-up antics of Alone in the Dark...