Natural Disasters

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From The Room: Why Stuff Happens
June 27, 2008 - I'm very flattered by the invitation to contribute to these pages, and a little trepidatious, since I am not a particularly intelligent person. I lacked the intellect, for example, to understand that eminent thinker and philosopher Sharon Stone when...
Angelina Jolie's Refugee Day PSA (video)
From The Feed: Angelina Jolie's Refugee Day PSA (video)
June 18, 2008 - It's National Refugee Day already? I almost forgot to be depressed as all hell...
Sybil Adelman Sage
From The Room: Political News from Abroad
May 23, 2008 - The unofficial word from Myanmar is that the government is asking Bush for the "mission accomplished" banner. Ed. note: Sybil Adelman Sage usually reports for 23/6 from New York City, but is currently on an island somewhere hoping not to get hit by a cyclone...
Jeff Kreisler
From The Room: World Shocked By Reality
May 15, 2008 - So, there's racism. And this is "news"... why? Have you been outside lately? Or are we all still under the blissfully terr...
Drudge redefines "disaster"
May 12, 2008 - ...

Appealing to Our Pre-Teen Selves: Ecuadorean volcano set to erupt
January 10, 2008 - In a matter of days, the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador is predicted to erupt, and all the villagers can think about are the 3,000 subsistence acres already damaged by the drifting ash. While hundreds of families from 10 different villages deal with the financial and emotional turmoil of being...
Michael Schwartz
From The Room: Finally, An Environmental Disaster We Didn't Cause
November 24, 2007 - I'm taking a break from pouring bleach down the sink in my 88-degree house, hot from a coal-burning furnace and bright from incandescent bulbs. My conscience is clear because people other than me are working to solve a problem mankind didn't create. The...

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