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From organizing benefit events to founding a group on thefacebook.com, members of the Harvard community are mobilizing to aid victims of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated wide swaths of Asia on Dec. 26 and killed over 155,000 people...
Rashmi J. Singh ’05 and three other students worked with Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd to create a new organization, the Harvard University Tsunami Relief Effort, which will raise awareness about the disaster and collect funds for agencies such as UNICEF...
...problems is that if you tell untrained people, 'Listen?there's a tsunami coming,' half of them go down to the beach to see what a tsunami looks like." PHIL MCFADDEN, chief scientist at Geoscience Australia, an agency that monitors earthquakes, on the difficulties of issuing tsunami warnings in Indian Ocean countries...
...this. "He didn't want to go out there and just speak for speaking's sake," says an aide. Democrats made hay of Bush's delayed response and ridiculed the Administration's initial pledge, suggesting that some of the $18 billion earmarked for Iraq reconstruction be diverted to help tsunami victims. The White House said it was waiting for assessments of the damage, and Bush pointed out that the U.S. provided 40% of the world's total disaster-relief funds last year, but even Republicans sighed at the Bush team's contortions. "The attitude problem is huge," says a Bush...
...those who were anywhere near the areas wrecked by the earthquake and tsunami, politics was the last thing on their mind. What was left was a humbling understanding of the awesome power of nature as the aching individual human tragedy played itself out. A Swedish man begged a Phuket hotel to let him store the coffins of his two dead children in its kitchen refrigerator. In a Buddhist temple in Bang Muang, Thailand, 180 corpses lay beneath a shelter, with an additional 80 in coffins, rigor mortis making their arms stretch out beseechingly. Fifteen hundred miles away, they were setting...