Word: tsunamis
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...That may end up being problematic because it’s quite clear that the Red Cross can’t use all the money it’s getting right now for the tsunami,” said Letts, who is also associate director of Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. “People have to make up their minds about that...
...have launched efforts to raise funds for the relief effort. The fraternity Sigma Chi is promoting a dinner at Uno’s in the Square tonight where 20 percent of diners’ checks will be donated to the Red Cross. A newly-formed group, the Harvard College Tsunami Relief Effort, has begun soliciting donations...
While the tsunami that swept across South Asia is a tragedy of inconceivable proportions, the response to this disaster has been an extraordinary example of the kindness and compassion of the human spirit...
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...
Outside the developing world, crises like global warming that demand a worldwide response are not getting the attention or action they deserve. The tsunami highlighted how many people, particularly in the third world, live in low-lying areas near the ocean. The rise in sea levels caused by global warming threatens to flood these low-lying areas around the world permanently, causing massive dislocations of people and unimaginable loss of property. And that is just one of the dire consequences of global warming. In the long run, the gradual heating of the planet will change weather patterns and increase mortality...