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When Abdul-Wahid Jahrani tells you religion saved his life, he's not getting ready to take up a collection. "I'm just glad I'm a Muslim, and we build our mosques so high," says the 49-year-old fisherman from Wuring village, on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores. When a massive tsunami slammed into the island's north shore 10 years ago, Jahrani survived by clinging to the crescent moon atop the local mosque...
...wife and the rest of his family were working on a farm up a hill; they survived. The earthquake and the resulting tsunami killed 1,690 of the island's 200,000 inhabitants and destroyed 20,000 homes. In some places, the tsunami's surge was measured at 26 meters above sea level. Large parts of Maumere, the island's second biggest town, were flattened. Some coastal communities were obliterated. "It's taken us a long time to rebuild, for things to get back to normal," says Dominggus Koro, manager of Moni Moi Tours and Travel. "But Flores is ready...
...your shots," says Clarke. "You want to force your opponent to take shots he might not want to." What motivates Europe may not be what you think. It's not revenge, though golf fans will surely bring up 1991's War by the Shore at Kiawah Island, South Carolina, where the Americans, in the flush of Gulf War bellicosity, donned camouflage caps. Or the bad manners at Brookline in 1999, when Team U.S.A. - players, wives, hangers-on - stormed the 17th green to celebrate what turned out to be the winning putt, even though Spain...
...official Sept. 11 anniversary ceremonies came to a close shortly after 9 p.m. Wednesday night with President Bush’s address to the nation from Ellis Island...
...chaplain said he had volunteered at the Salvation Army tent at the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island, the site where debris from the World Trade Center was transferred and sifted through in the search for the bodies of those lost on Sept. 11. He also spent time in the tent at Ground Zero last March, praying with relief workers...