Tag: tore
Cyclone Death Toll Soars Past 22,000
" YANGON, Myanmar - The death toll from the cyclone that battered Myanmar last weekend rose above 22,000 Tuesday as the international community prepared to rush in aid, state radio reported.A...
Cuba Puts Computers on Sale to Public
As Raul moves Cuba into the 21st Century many continue to wonder where its all headed. Salaries continue to put the luxury of a home PC or a weekend at a hotel resort clear out of reach for most Cubans. "Cubans are...
Canuck's Taylor Pyatt Injury Update: 25 Stitches ...
Yesterday afternoon, Taylor Pyatt was hit in the face with a puck. News of the extent of his injury has just been released on the Canucks website. "Pyatt was struck in the face by the puck on a clearing attempt by...
Explosion rocks Beirut, four killed
UPDATE: See story by Kuwait for situation update. Violence erupts yet again in Beirut as a bomb explodes at a seafront amusement park. "An explosion rocked Beirut's seafront corniche on Wednesday, killing at least four people near a military beach club, security sources...
"Bill Moyers Journal" Back on PBS
" Bill Moyers Journal: "Buying the War" will broadcast on PBS on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. EDT (check local listings - www.pbs.org/moyers.) Bill Moyers Journal regular programming premieres Friday at...
Flood Watch in New York as Storm Heads East
"A severe weather system blamed for two deaths plowed eastward Saturday, rattling the Gulf states with strong thunderstorms as the Northeast prepared for possible coastal flooding.
The storm blew across the southern Plains on Friday, piling snow a foot deep in Kansas and...
Artifact: A Chilling Tale of Global Warming
From Reason Magazine (h/t FR)"The United Nations has ventured into children’s publishing with a scary story about a small boy who loses a dogsled race because of global warming. In November the odd little picture book cum policy brief, Tore and the Town on Thin Ice, made...
34,452 Iraq civilians said killed in '06
I don't even know how to categorize this story. Politics seems too trite. Environment seems to encompass the calamity but emergency seems the best fit:"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Twin car bombs tore through a leading Baghdad university as students left classes Tuesday in the...
New Years Eve Fire In East Orange Displaces 65
"New Jersey - A four alarm fire tore through a four story apartment building on New Years Eve, leaving two people hospitalized, many injured, and sixty five residents without a place to live on New Years Day. At 8:00...
10 dead in Moscow market blast
"MOSCOW — A bomb blast tore through a Moscow market Monday morning, news agencies quoted the city’s deputy mayor as saying. Officials said the blast killed 10 people and injured 31.
Deputy Mayor Vladimir Resin said a homemade bomb caused the blast, which hit a two-storey...
