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...fires caught many Greeks on their summer holidays when they usually return to their ancestral homesteads to visit their parents and relatives. Athanassia Karta Paraskevopoulou, a 35-year-old mother of four, was among them. But last Friday, her holiday came to a tragic end while trying to flee a wildfire that thrust into her village, Artemida, in the highlands of Zaharo. Rescue teams found her burned remains in an olive grove strewn with 23 other corpses. "Her arms," said Vassilis Mitros, among the first locals at the site, "were wrapped around the bodies of her four children." Other victims...
...that it dared launch the suicide missions of 9/11 [July 30]. The U.S. must stay the course because if it retreats from Iraq, all enemies of freedom, especially al-Qaeda and its admirers, will become more adventurous. In addition, those religious zealots will claim Islam as one of their tragic victims. Husam Dughman, TORONTO
...these things are what educators call teachable moments - a valuable and elusive commodity in the profession that only the best teachers and students know how to exploit fully. The folks at NASA have had two tragic teachable moments of their own - in 1986 and 2003. So far, they don't seem to have learned much...
...1990s) that it dared launch the suicide missions of 9/11. The U.S. must stay the course because if it retreats from Iraq, all enemies of freedom, especially al-Qaeda and its admirers, will become more adventurous. In addition, those religious zealots will claim Islam as one of their tragic victims. Husam Dughman, Toronto...
...they were not prematurely taken from our midst. Still, to me, the fact that it happens at all is sad, just terrible, tragic...