Word: tsunamis
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...Angelides must find a way to ride the mounting wave of support for Democratic candidates nationwide. Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Howard Dean have done their part by stumping across the state with him in recent weeks, stoking partisan passions. "There's a tsunami headed West from the Atlantic Seaboard that's going to knock over Republican candidates," says Bob Mulholland, campaign advisor for the state Democratic party. "Angelides needs to be on top of it." But Jack Pitney, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, doubts the wave will drown Schwarzenegger, who now enjoys a 52% approval...
...hours after 100 sailors died in a suicide attack on a naval convoy, the deadliest in the nation's history. This violence dims hopes for a cease-fire in Sri Lanka's civil war, and further threatens its vital tourism industry, ravaged by war and by the 2004 tsunami. Tourism Minister Anura Bandaranaike says the attack near Galle?a major tourist destination?could have "serious consequences." With the high season approaching, Sri Lanka's travel industry is faltering: arrivals in September dropped 11% from last year, while Deccan Lanka, a budget airline scheduled to launch next month...
...find a place to live," Nando says. "It was easier to speak about the environment when people were not so traumatized." After all, she and a handful of colleagues at FFI work in Calang, a district of Aceh where most of the homes and businesses were flattened by the tsunami, where half of all residents were killed, where survivors are still struggling to make enough money to put rice and fish on the table...
...Nando has slowly built trust among the locals. After the tsunami, the first order of business was damage control. So Nando started a program employing 300 people who cleaned up mangroves ripped out by the waves and replaced them with live plants in order to restore the shoreline's potential for shrimp and crab farming. An additional 25 hectares were planted along the coast to act as a natural barrier against future tsunamis. Now, with normalcy returning to the lives of the area's fisherman and farmers, Nando and her colleagues talk to residents one-on-one about the long...
...districts. Since then, "the water is much cleaner and not yellow like before," says Muhib Budin, a local leader. As part of the project, Budin received 12,000 rubber-tree saplings from FFI to plant as an income substitute for the village. Hashimi, an ex-logger who before the tsunami cut down more than 10 trees a month to satisfy demand for Aceh's precious seumantok wood, is also thinking long term. "If we replant the trees by the lake," he says, "maybe we could increase eco-tourism in Aceh." Those are hopeful words from an island where hope...