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...Aventis' British competitor GlaxoSmithKline, which lost two vacationing employees in the disaster, is giving $3.8 million and more than 2 million doses of drugs, and is prepared to donate 600,000 vials of vaccines to relief operations. Swedish truckmaker Scania - whose country may have suffered Europe's highest death toll...
...American Plate???is remarkably similar to the subterranean system that triggered the tsunami in the Indian Ocean and is capable of generating equally powerful earthquakes and equally destructive waves Some key differences: a tsunami???warning system, better housing construction and a more rugged and less populous coastline. The death toll from a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest might be in the hundreds but not in the tens of thousands...
...lives anonymously and with great pain. We can only imagine the dread those thousands experienced when the waters roared up, the terror so many mothers felt as waves swept their little children away or the anguish of nameless fishermen trapped under beached and broken vessels. Even today the death toll still continues to grow, grimly marching ever higher...
Chief among these tragedies is hunger. According to the United Nations and other non-profit groups, 24,000 people, including about 16,500 children under the age of five, die every day from hunger. That is one child every seven seconds. In terms of deaths, the tsunami death toll, which now stands at about 150,000, is comparable to just a week of world hunger. In the most undernourished countries, one of seven children will not reach the age of five, and the average life expectancy is 38 years as opposed to 70 in the developed world...
...reported death toll would be understated. Whole families are missing. Who would report them?" SYAIFUDDIN ABDULLAH, oil-company project manager, who lost his sister and brother-in-law in Indonesia's Aceh province during the Sumatran earthquake...