Tsunami mother's terrible choice
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Jillian Searle knew she could not hold on to both her children during Sunday's tsunami - and had to let go of one of them.
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NAVALADY BEACH, Sri Lanka -- As dawn breaks over Sri Lanka's coast, dozens of parents come to the beach where huge waves seized their children a week ago.
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December 31, 2004 -- Australian Jillian Searle had to choose between her two children when she was caught in a tsunami at a Thai resort.
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Until two weeks ago, Smith Thammasaroj was a prophet without honor. As chief of Thailand's meteorological department in 1998, he was accused of scare-mongering when he warned that the country's southwest coast could face a deadly tsunami.
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BANGKOK - With the staggering numbers of dead and injured from the tsunami that struck South and Southeast Asia last weekend continuing to rise, the tragedy is quickly turning into one of the worst natural disasters in modern history.
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Nine women in Sri Lanka are reported to have claimed to be the mother of an unidentified infant rescued from the tsunami.
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The dilemma faced by one doctor after the disasters in Asia: stay with her family or lend her expertise.
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Swedish toddler Hannes Bergstroem can't understand much of the Media frenzy that has surrounded him since he miraculously survived the Asian tsunami.
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A TSUNAMI warning that could have saved thousands of lives was issued but not acted upon more than an hour before giant waves hit Sri Lanka and southern India.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Four weeks after killer  waves destroyed communities around the Indian Ocean, a lone  tsunami survivor was rescued from a remote island, a rare  moment of hope among countless tales of grief and loss.
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Poverty-stricken areas reeling from a series of tsunamis on Sunday now must cope with the sickness and death spawned by contaminated food and water.
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Killer tsunamis are coming again, over and over, in the nightmares of children who survived the waves which swept them from their homes or picnics on Malaysia's Penang island.
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The young actress was trapped amid the devastation.
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In the story of Baby No. 81 lies a hint of the raw and peculiar distress of Sri Lanka's bereaved parents.
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MEDAN, Indonesia -- These are the lucky ones. Fate sent them to the crumbling wards of the Pirngadi General Hospital instead of to their graves. Here, where many victims with the most complicated injuries from the Dec. 26 tsunami were evacuated, survivors embark on daunting recoveries.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - This fishing village just  north of Thailand's Khao Lak beach does not exist any more and  Maitri Sayput, 47, thinks that after Sunday's tsunami she is  one of its few survivors.
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Benjamat Moongdee picked through the rubbish and debris from last month's tsunami to find anything she might sell.