Word: tsunamis
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...morning, it seemed that the hidden vulnerability of the American colossus had been laid bare. The desperate decisions of some World Trade Center employees to leap to their deaths rather than burn in the flames, the heartrending phone calls of the doomed passengers on the fateful flights, the apocalyptic tsunami of dust that engulfed lower Manhattan as the Twin Towers imploded and fell--this was America's waking nightmare...
...real estate transaction occurs. What we're advocating is, Let's be smart and do it up front and have the people who live in harm's way provide much of the pooled relief and then have the Federal Government stand in when there are the really large, tsunami kind of events...
...million effort to provide college scholarships to the spouses and children of those who had been killed or disabled in the attack. It was a prelude to an even more unexpected Odd Couple act: An unlikely partnership with George Herbert Walker Bush that raised $1 billion for tsunami relief and another $115 million in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
This year, perhaps to make the farce explicit, the event organizers, from the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, introduced a parlor game. They placed a ballot box next to the water pitchers and asked everyone to vote: What will be the next mega-disaster? A tsunami, an earthquake, a pandemic flu? And where will it strike? It was an amusing diversion, although not a hard question for this...
...Another worry is that a heavy focus on detection technology for the entire region may be draining resources from the more critical problems of basic preparedness in those areas most threatened by tsunamis. "In western Sumatra, there is no emergency preparation beyond what would save 1% of the people here," says Kerry Sieh, a geologist at the California Institute of Technology who has spent years studying Indonesia. Sieh fears that a tsunami far deadlier than the one on July 17 could strike the western coast of Sumatra or Java at any time, and warns that the international community first needs...