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...fishmonger, crouched in a tent with around 40 other survivors. His five-year-old daughter Tia Leni Augustina sat in his lap, but his son wasn't there. When the quake struck, Amin ran from his house with his boy named Fajar. Almost immediately, he was inundated by a wave of earth from the landslide. Amin kept hold of his son and clawed his way out, thinking he was safe. After running around 200 m (about 600 feet), he was knocked back by another torrent of soil and lost his grip on Fajar. On Friday, his two-year...
...that saved hundreds of people," Carlson says. He now works on researching technology to improve disaster response as a whole. "It's literally word of mouth right now," Carlson says. If coastal residents don't know a tsunami is on the way, "they find out as soon as the wave makes landfall...
Despite predictions that the Great Recession would foment a wave of lawlessness, U.S. crime dropped 1.9% from 2007 to 2008, according to statistics compiled by the FBI. Violent crimes were down across the board, and rapes fell to their lowest level in 20 years. But the news is not all good: burglary spiked, and black men remained about six times as likely as white men to be murdered...
...height of the civil war in Iraq, a tidal wave of refugees crossed the border into Syria, changing the face of the capital, Damascus, with their clothing, accents and shell-shocked appearances. Years later, many of the 1.5 million Iraqis remaining in Syria have become a part of the fabric of life. Many own homes or businesses and have children who speak Arabic with a Syrian accent. But one sector of the immigrant population still feels ill at ease: the 400,000 or so Iraqis with ties to the former regime of Saddam Hussein...
...argue that it's time France and Germany seized the reins in Europe again. Assuming Irish voters approve the E.U.'s Lisbon Treaty on Oct. 2, a decade-long debate over the E.U.'s institutions should come to an end later this year, opening the way for a new wave of change. "We've had a decade of institutional masturbation, during which everyone lost their public opinion," one French government minister, speaking privately, says. "It's time to move on and become more political again." (Read: "The E.U.'s Future: Back in the Hands of Irish Voters...