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The appointment of Hausmann, professor of the practice of economic development at the Kennedy School, and the commitment to additional funding appeared to at least temporarily rescue the center from a period of uncertainty that had alarmed many professors and students. The center coordinates and funds research on international development...
Helicopters offer the only means of reaching mountain villages and hamlets stranded by rockslides and the ultra-maneuverable Blackhawk is ideal for threading up the winding river courses at the bottom of narrow and steep valleys. McFadden and the others carried out as many missions as they could between daybreak...
When French rescue teams were first dropped in the Himalayan town of Balakot on Monday night, they appeared as bewildered and overwhelmed as Balakot's remaining survivors. Balakot had once been a hillside town of 20,000 people, but the earthquake has reduced it to a muddy smear. Ninety percent...
The French, with only 12 rescue workers and a couple of dogs, didn't know where to begin; everybody in Balakot was desperate for help. Finally, they chose to begin work at one of the town's elementary schools whose walls had collapsed at the first dreadful stirrings of the...
During that first day, the local rescue effort stalled because few people were left alive to claw through the rubble in search of their families. "There were no helping hands," says Mohammad Raees, 22, a shopkeeper. "You could find only one or two people at the collapsed houses, desperately asking...