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With students shelling out thousands of dollars for tuition and fees, the occasional cafe stop or CD purchase often doesn't seem worth noting. But the costs eventually take their toll, and students have to somehow keep track of their dwindling bank accounts...
...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...
...night. The severity of a quake as gauged by energy released is also no measure of its destructiveness. A small quake in the center of a city can kill 1,000 people for every life lost to a monster tremor in a thinly populated place--like the death toll if any (there doesn't seem to be an exact count) in New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811-12, when it was rocked by one of the most severe series of earthquakes ever to strike the U.S. The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous...
...result was a deadly confusion that seemed to overtake every level of government. Immediately after the quake, Kobe authorities failed to cordon off main roads for official use, and the delay of police and fire vehicles undoubtedly raised the death toll. For nearly four hours, the Governor of Hyogo prefecture, which includes Kobe, neglected to make the necessary request for aid to the national armed forces, which would provide 16,000 rescuers by week's end. The national government could also have stepped in sooner to aid with coordination. Soldiers who did arrive were plagued by communications snafus: at midnight...