Politics enters plan for
tsunami warning system By Paul Wiseman, USA TODAY
HONG KONG — As a deadly tsunami approached
the Thai beach resort of Phuket on Dec. 26, the only
warning came from a little British girl who had the
good sense to pay attention in geography class a few
weeks earlier.
On holiday with her family, Tilly Smith, 10, remembered
what she had learned back at school in southeastern
England. She recognized the water's weird foaming
and swirling as a precursor to a tsunami. Smith screamed
at her parents to get off the beach. After a moment's
hesitation, they did. About a dozen other tourists
fled with them to higher ground. Minutes later, 15-foot
waves lashed the Thai coastline.
Dr.
Vandana Shiva is a physicist, author and environmentalist from India.
As someone deeply dedicated to eradicating the use of GMO crops in India,
She is working with Indian farmers to save the seeds from previous years
crops and adding them to a “seed library”.
Meet Molly. She's a gray speckled
pony who was abandoned by her owners in the wake of Katrina. She spent
weeks on her own before finally being rescued and taken to a farm where
abandoned animals were Stockpiled. While there, she was attacked by a
pit bull terrier, and almost died. Her gnawed right front leg became
infected and her vet went to LSU for help. But LSU was overwhelmed, and
this pony was a welfare case. You know how that goes.
