Apart from some miracle rescues, Japan has seen little good news in the month since catastrophe struck.
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From Rwanda to Bosnia: Devastating impact of world’s tragedies
Over the last two decades humanitarian organization International Medical Corps has cared for hundreds of thousands of victims of wars and natural disasters in more than 25 countries.
Philippines faces flood rescue challenges
Downpours subsided temporarily in the Philippines on Sunday, a day after Tropical Storm Ketsana pummeled the capital Manila with its heaviest rainfall in more than 40 years. Flood spawned by the rainfall killed at least 51 people with at least 21 others missing, the government said.
How technology lifts Pixar’s ‘Up’
If you want to consider a difficult computational problem, try thinking of the algorithms required to animate more than 10,000 helium balloons, each with its own string, but each also interdependent on the rest, which are collectively hoisting aloft a small house.
UAW agrees to ‘painful’ concessions to save Chrysler
The United Auto Workers union announced Sunday it had reached an agreement with Chrysler, Fiat and the U.S.