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Travel philanthropy has been on the rise since the tsunami of 2004. Tourists looking to help the often disadvantaged countries they visit can invest time, energy or money. Below, some of the best ways to get away while giving something back...
ESTABLISHED. TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM, covering the Indian Ocean; by UNESCO; in Paris. Designed to prevent a repeat of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people, the planned system will link seismographic equipment and deep-sea sensors scattered throughout the region with monitoring centers and emergency-services agencies in at least 19 countries. When fully operational in 2006, the system is expected to provide early warning of potentially devastating undersea earthquakes, enabling the evacuation of coastal communities around the Indian Ocean...
...American people, as they showed over the tsunami, are generous and warmhearted. If they thought the money would make the difference, they would [come through]. The American initiative on AIDS has put 150,000 people on antiretroviral drugs. If we were able to have an African peacekeeping force able to go into situations like Sudan--where America is the biggest contributor of humanitarian help--you would prevent a lot of problems...
California has been doing a lot of shaking of late. In mid-June a sizable quake off its north coast triggered a tsunami warning, a false alarm, fortunately, while far to the south, earthquakes of lesser power knocked stuff off shelves and seriously rattled the composure of those who felt the ground sway beneath them. That's because the earthquakes that concern Californians most are those that haven't happened--at least, not yet--along the state's fault-fractured western edge...
...people should support it as it can pave the way for greater collaboration." NIMALAN KARTHIKEYAN, assistant general secretary of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, on the government's approval of a controversial plan allowing Tamil Tiger separatists to share $3 billion in aid for the island's tsunami victims...