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...Being away from competition certainly takes its toll,” Sullivan added...
...consensus between Iraq's new political class and the insurgents who kept their promise to bloody the poll with a steady stream of attacks in the months preceding it, and which killed at least 41 people on election day despite the elaborate security procedures in place. Still, the death toll would almost certainly have been considerably higher had not banning all vehicles from the roads prevented car bombings. But the insurgents are almost certain to redouble their efforts in the coming weeks, as if to show that the election hasn't altered the strategic reality. And as long as turnout...
Though only one person has been found dead from an avalanche a week ago near Park City, Utah, 16 people have been killed in avalanches in the U.S. this season, almost double the toll at the same time last year. Ski resorts routinely blast problem snow from steep slopes. But as more skiers and snowmobilers head for the backcountry, where there is no organized avalanche control, attention is shifting to new self-rescue techniques...
...doing enough? In a TIME/CNN poll conducted by TNS, nearly three-quarters of respondents in Indonesia and India?two of the worst-hit countries?say they are satisfied with the global and local responses to the disaster. In Indonesia, which last week raised its calculation of the national death toll from the tsunami to more than 166,000, 82% of those surveyed expressed satisfaction with the help provided by the international community. In India, which lost more than 10,000 people but turned down international aid, 70% of the respondents thought their government's aid was adequate...
...death toll from the Asian tsunami rose sharply last week when Indonesia's Health Ministry moved 50,000 of the people on its missing list to the fatalities column, bringing the total there to 166,320. Although the waves have long receded, the tsunami still threatens. For survivors in crowded, unsanitary refugee camps, normally treatable illnesses such as cholera, dysentery, malaria and measles can quickly become mass murderers. So great is the danger that Dr. David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's (WHO) head of crisis operations, initially warned that the death toll from disease could rival that...