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...ARRESTED. KIM JONG HON, 43, South Korean businessman; following the seizure of freight containers holding 13 highly radioactive devices; on Sakhalin Island, Russia. Kim, president of South Korea's All Nations Co., was detained by Russian police for allegedly attempting to import undeclared items. The devices, according to Russian authorities, contained uranium 238, a metal used in the process of armor plating and the production of ammunition, although some experts say it could possibly be used to make dirty bombs. South Korean officials say the devices were to be used at a construction site...
...wind speeds and temperature in a computer simulation, Hoffman nudged the course of Hurricane Iniki, which leveled swaths of Kauai, Hawaii, in 1992. Shifts of up to 5 m.p.h. in wind speeds sent the eye of the storm on a track veering 60 miles to the west of the island, and 1??F fluctuations in temperature quelled its destructive winds. They sound easy enough, but in the real world those kinds of modifications "would require a huge amount of energy," says Hoffman, "not in the realm of what we're capable of these days." Scientists may never find...
...city, authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Fifty miles south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. In Batticaloa, on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, dozens of men have lined up on either side of a bridge, watching for bodies trapped underwater to pop up to the surface of a lagoon...
...cause of the carnage was a massive earthquake that trembled the earth's crust off the western coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, setting off through the oceans shock waves that were felt more than 3,000 miles away on the coast of East Africa, where at least 200 people died. Bustami, a fisherman from the Sumatran village of Bosun, is one who experienced the quake and tsunami and lived to tell about them. Sometime after 7:30 on the morning of Dec. 26, he says, he was on his boat just off the coast when he felt...
...Salvation Army The group is giving ?practical aid and spiritual comfort? in Sri Lanka, India and Aceh and Nias Island in Indonesia, by setting up feeding centers, distributing clothing and blankets in relief camps and counseling relatives of victims...