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...home, which, like most French retirement homes, is not air-conditioned. Three residents died during the heat wave - deaths sped by high temperatures, not staff negligence. "They knew exactly what to do to make sure [we] came through fine," says De Noinville. "Not everyone was so lucky." As death toll estimates in France soared from 2,000 on Aug. 14 to as high as 13,400 last week - geometrically higher than anywhere else in sunbaked Europe - the country has been forced to admit that many of its 4.6 million people aged 75 and over do not receive anything like...
...Provençal town of Orange. AUG. 13 France's biggest undertaker, General Funeral Services (PFG), announces a 37% increase in deaths from Aug. 4 to Aug. 10 compared with the same week last year. AUG. 14 The Health Ministry puts the estimated death toll at 3,000. Raffarin cuts short his vacation and returns to Paris. Just before temperatures finally return to normal, the French government launches a nationwide emergency plan to provide extra hospital beds and staff. AUG. 18 Health Minister Jean-François Mattei says the estimate of 5,000 heat- related deaths is "plausible." Surgeon...
...This year more than 250 migrants have perished along both sides of the border, including at least 100 this summer, when crossings are the most dangerous because of the desert heat. (In Arizona, 50 migrants died in July alone.) Immigration experts expect 2003's migrant death toll to surpass last year's total of 490, making this the deadliest 12 months for border crossings on record...
...Europeans faced renewed misery. Train tracks buckled, hundreds of thousands of farm animals died and crops either wilted in the heat or ripened prematurely. Although the fires that ravaged countries from Portugal to Poland were brought largely under control, the cost of the heatwave mounted. The death toll - from both the fires and heat exhaustion - reached at least 36. In Portugal, which battled devastating forest fires, the government appealed to the E.U. for 31 billion in aid. Spinning Around U.K. David Kelly, the scientist who apparently killed himself after being named as the main source for a BBC report that...
Harvard Management Company President Jack Meyer, who manages Harvard’s endowment, said the Corporation’s current conservatism is probably due to the sagging economy and its toll on the endowment...