Word: tremoring
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...city of 3.2 million was rocked by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck offshore, just 24 km to the southwest. Feeling the tremor, thousands of families fled into the streets and rushed for high ground, fearing another tsunami like the one that killed some 170,000 Indonesians in December 2004. "Everybody, young and old, ran up the hill for safety," says Ismambandiah, a middle-aged woman caught in the quake. The fatal waves never came, but the temblor wreaked havoc on Yogyakarta and surrounding communities, killing at least 3,000 and leaving tens of thousands more injured and homeless...
...city of 3.2 million was rocked by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck offshore, just 24 km to the southwest. Feeling the tremor, thousands of families fled into the streets and rushed for high ground, fearing another tsunami like the one that killed some 170,000 Indonesians in December 2004. "Everybody, young and old, ran up the hill for safety," says Ismambandiah, a middle-aged woman caught in the quake. The fatal waves never came, but the temblor wreaked havoc on Yogyakarta and surrounding communities, killing at least 3,000 and leaving tens of thousands more injured and homeless...
...most horrific damage occurred in the district of Bantul, south of the city, where the tremor pulverized hundreds of houses, burying sleeping families beneath the rubble. Those lucky enough to escape dug for survivors with their bare hands. Electricity and phone lines throughout much of the city were disrupted, and Yogyakarta's airport was temporarily closed due to damage, diverting much-needed relief flights. Makeshift ambulances picked their way along cratered roads to hospitals and clinics choked with the injured. Nurses laid the wounded in folding beds outside the buildings, for fear of aftershocks. Even more crowded were the morgues...
Scene, meanwhile, Freeze’s club-going older sister, is set to send another tremor of upper-glass guilt across campus in mid-May with the release of their second issue. According to editors Emily Washkowitz ’08 and Rebecca A. Kaden ’08, Scene 2’s going to be just like Scene 1, but better. Expect photo shoots, undergrad fashion designers, and senior profiles. Also see Scene’s “Style” blog on CampusTap.com, but keep your pants on for the magazine’s website (www.sceneonline.org...
Former super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty today to three felony counts of conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion, sending another tremor through Washington as expectations mount that the man who had access to many of the most powerful members of Congress could take some of them down with him. The plea agreement lays out in tantalizingly oblique strokes the way Abramoff raised millions of dollars on the sly from Indian tribal clients and then bought influence on Capitol Hill through lavish gifts of money, travel and entertainment. "Words will not be able to ever express how sorry...