Steering committee reviews tsunami rehabilitation measures
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Schemes to the tune of Rs.5,074 crore being implemented in 13 coastal districts
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And Then The Orgy of Lawsuits Hit Like Another Financial Tsunami
Get Rich Slick (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
It’s getting hard for me to keep up but I’ve been reading about the plethora of lawsuits filed by city, state, and others against various investment firms and banks for all sorts of crazy things. In San Diego, the city has filed lawsuit against Bank of America to keep the bank from foreclosing on homes. [...]
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Movies, Books and Tsunami’s
Scorched Earth (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
I’ve been watching movies again. We went to see Hancock last week. I’m not inclined to write a review suffice to say we really enjoyed it and Will Smith is just fab . . . and utterly gorgeous. I came across Jason and the Argonauts on DVD yesterday and the shop was asking for £3 no [...]
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And Now Your Friday Downer: No 'Golden Girls' Made It To Estelle Getty's Funeral [Thank You For Nothing]
Defamer (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Uh-oh—don't let that crying kid on YouTube see this, lest we prepare for a tsunami of waterworks that could very well short-out the entire internet: None of the surviving Golden Girls showed up...
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Invasion of the netbooks -- new systems from Asus, Acer, and Sylvania
Crave RSS (Free subscription) | yesterday
From left to right: the Asus Eee PC 1000, Eee PC 901, Sylvania g netbook, and Acer Aspire One. Sure, it's a popular new form factor , but we've been hit by a literal flood of new netbooks in the past few days. This tiny laptop tsunami includes the ...
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Invasion of the Netbooks: New systems from Asus, Acer, and Sylvania
Crave RSS (Free subscription) | yesterday
From left to right: the Asus Eee PC 1000, Eee PC 901, Sylvania g netbook, and Acer Aspire One. Sure, it's a popular new form factor , but we've been hit by a literal flood of new Netbooks in the past few days. This tiny laptop tsunami includes the ...
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Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner's Wonderful Time
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ava Gardner, publicity photo for T he Killers The love affair between Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra—and I'm using that term loosely—was a legendary tsunami of high drama. Both stars were emotionally immature with little impulse control. Both stars were alcoholics. And both had a history of affairs with equally unstable partners. And so it should have been no surprise that The Voice and The Shape would...
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22% swing to the SNP
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
GORDON Brown was hit by a political Tsunami early this morning when the SNP snatched a sensational victory in the Glasgow East by-election. The Prime Minister will now face a summer of discontent after the degree of Labour unpopularity was laid bare in what was previously the party's third-safest Scottish seat. If the result were to be repeated at the next general election in Scotland, Labour would...
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Iraq/Afghanistan lowdown
Darwiniana (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
RG http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/2008/06/at_last_some_tr.php June 23, 2008 At last, some truth about Iraq and Afghanistan Paris - After a sea of lies and a tsunami of propaganda, the ugly truth behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally emerged into full view this week.
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July 24, 2008
SemiPolitico (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
World The Wall Street Journal gives a bit of review as well as their take on what India should do to continue advancing as a global economic power d A major earthquake shook Japan this morning injuring at least 91 people. Luckily, there is no reported threat of a tsunami. US The Bush Administration plans to allocate anti-terror funds in order to improve Afghanistan's ability to combat terror Talks...
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Earthquake shakes Pacific Ocean off Russia
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted the Pacific Ocean off Kamchatka's southern coast, causing no casualties, destruction or threat of tsunami, the Itar-Tass news agency reported Th...
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Powerful Earthquake Hits Japan
ABC News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Powerful earthquake hits off Japan's northern coast, but no danger of tsunami.
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Powerful earthquake hits off Japan's northern coast, dozens injured but no danger of tsunami
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
TOKYO (AP) _ A powerful earthquake rattled parts of northern Japan early Thursday, injuring more than 100 people, triggering landslides and cutting power to thousands of people, officials said.
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At Least 91 Injured As Strong Earthquake Jolts Northern Japan
Free Internet Press (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A strong earthquake jolted northern Japan early on Thursday, injuring at least 91 people, trapping hundreds in halted trains and temporarily cutting off electric power to thousands of homes. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said there was no threat of a tsunami from the quake, which struck at 00:26 (10:26 a.m. EDT Wednesday) and had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 and could be felt as far away...
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Health insurance for tsunami-hit
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
CHENNAI: Nearly 1.57 lakh families across the State, who were affected by the tsunami, have been provided medical and accident insurance by the United India Insurance Company. Of this, about 6,500 families are in the city. Addressing ...
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jean ledoux | 11/24/2007
A tsunami; a natural disaster, results when two faults form and move apart in the ocean. In 2005 a Tsunami occured off the coast of Thailand and caused major damages. To continued... Tsunami
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