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Our Weblog has a roundup of non-tsunami news today.

Aid & relief:

• Survivors, counselors overwhelmed | Many victims too traumatized to discuss the tragedy yet (The Boston Globe)
• Two measles cases occur in Indonesia | The military, meanwhile, urges foreign-aid groups to create lists of workers (Associated Press)
• How you can help tsunami victims | Several organizations are accepting donations for victims of the Asian earthquake and tidal wave. (Lodi News-Sentinel, Calif.)
• Challenge is getting relief to victims | Relief workers say there are enough food and supplies coming in to meet the basic needs of tsunami victims here, yet many still go wanting. (Los Angeles Times, via Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
• Walls fell to enormity of waves | The waves were indiscriminate. They washed away luxury resorts and poor villages, vacationing European mothers and fathers and Asian children, Hindus and Buddhists, Muslims and Christians. The walls of water also washed away -- at least temporarily -- the walls we build between one another. (David Waters, Commercial Appeal, Tenn.)
• Workers find tsunami corpses in Indonesia | Rescue workers pulled thousands more rotting corpses from the mud and debris of flattened towns along the Sumatran coast Saturday, two weeks after surging walls of water caused unprecedented destruction on the shores of the Indian Ocean. The death toll in 11 countries passed 150,000. (Associated Press)
• Quake aid workers face new battles | Charity workers are battling against tropical rainstorms, flooding and security scares to get aid to those worst hit by the Asian tsunami. (The Scotsman)
• Comforting Strangers | There are lessons to be learned from the world's generosity (Time)
• Relief helicopter crashes; 10 survive | A U.S. Navy Seahawk SH-60 helicopter crashed Monday morning in a rice paddy as it approached Banda Aceh airport during tsunami relief operations in Sumatra. (Chicago Tribune)
• Tsunami aftermath: Developments | There has been in the past in this region, even before this horrible tragedy, criminal trafficking syndicates, trafficking young people, children, largely for sex purposes (Detroit Free Press)
• Clashes, rain hurt aid effort | A burst of gunfire in Indonesia and an outbreak of violence in Sri Lanka raised fears yesterday that simmering rebellions in both countries could hamper aid efforts for tsunami victims. (New York Post)
• Aid on wings and prayer | The volunteers, mostly people from the nearby Amish community, also inspect and box hundreds of cans of cooked turkey meat. The group operates a bus that travels to Mennonite churches around the country, cooking and canning turkeys on site. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• From no religion to religion in the tsunami | Even after the Indian Ocean tsunami, an Act of God in lawyer's language, discussion in the western media focuses on political issues. (Carl Ince, Barbados Advocate)

Rebuilding:

• Young and afraid: Children recall tsunami disaster | Of the more than 150,000 people who lost their lives in the tsunamis that struck this region two weeks ago, about a third were children. But beyond that statistic are thousands more children who lost cousins, aunts, grandmothers or a parent—or two—in the disaster. (The Dallas Morning News)
• In this town, road to recovery starts from a priest's doorsteps | Two weeks after the tsunami, you can't walk around Colachel without holding your nose. It's the scent of renewal, chlorine being such an indispensable part of it. (Newindpress, India)

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January (Web-only) 2005, Vol. 49