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 |  | Deaf Children in Greater Danger of Gunfire It’s dangerous enough to be a healthy child amid gunfire in Gaza and the West Bank, but it’s much worse for deaf children who cannot hear warning shots from Israeli soldiers. Read more... | |
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| Famine Could Rival Crisis of 1984 The carcasses of starved livestock have once again begun to litter the parched land of Ethiopia, where shortages of rain have been more severe than those which led to the much-publicized famine of 1984 that killed a million people. Read more... | |||
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 | Two Years Later, Gujarat Is Still Rebuilding Nearly two years after an earthquake created rubble out of 300,000 homes in the southwestern Indian State of Gujarat, fewer than half have been rebuilt. The quake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, struck on the morning of January 29, 2001, killing nearly 20,000 people. In 90 seconds, 50 years of development work was crushed. Read more... | ||
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| Cyclone Zoe Floods Two Remote Islands Hundreds of people on the remote islands of Tikopia and Anuta are homeless and face hunger after Cyclone Zoe, packing winds of up to 225 miles per hour, slammed into the Solomon Islands on December 29. Waves reached more than 200 yards inland, their salt water destroying the staple crops of cassava, taro and sweet potatoes. | |||
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