The greatest catastrophe
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The HIV/Aids pandemic is the worst catastrophe in history and is blighting childhood across the developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations said yesterday.
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The importance of keeping personal matters personal Comment Sometimes I hear a story that is simply breathtaking in its stupidity and potential for disaster. For your delectation, horror, and amazement, here is one relayed to me by a good friend a few days ago.â¦
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Rarely has such a far-off tragedy seemed so close to home. News of Asia's devastating tsunami reached the living rooms of most Americans in a matter of just hours, through dramatic video taken by tourists, Internet postings and cell phones. The catastrophe has tugged at heartstrings in a way few international disasters have.
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Kathleen Tierney, a disaster researcher, says that catastrophes change the way people experience time.
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SEOUL -- By some accounts, it was a disaster of biblical proportions that afflicted North Korea in July.
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Witness accounts after huge waves triggered by an earthquake devastated Asia.
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Are you appalled at the scope of the devastation wreaked by tsunami waves in Asia? You&#39;ve got company. The disaster is on track to become the largest ever, costwise.
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Three hours after an offshore earthquake shook Canada in 1929, three giant ocean surges hurtled onto Newfoundland's coast at 78 miles per hour. Twenty-nine people were killed by the estimated 20-foot waves, and entire salt cod-fishing villages were dismantled as pulses from the tsunami reverberated as far away as Portugal.
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coral isles for missing tourists as Asia counted the cost of a tsunami that killed at least 12,600. world&#39;s biggest earthquake in 40 years that struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra early on Sunday.
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By LaRose, Greg  Hurricane Katrina is the most costly natural disaster in U.S. history judging by insurance payouts.  But levee failures along the 17th Street, London Avenue and Orleans Avenue canals were man-made catastrophes.
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The tsunamis that claimed thousands of lives across the Indian Ocean are the deadliest great waves in more than a century and probably in modern history.
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It should have been a time of carnival and celebration. Instead it has turned into a catastophe. Phil Davison reports on the catastrophe in the Caribbean.
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In seven hours last week, great ocean waves exacted a terrible price in wealth and human lives. Future catastrophes may be far grimmer.
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but it&#39;s something to which they need to begin paying attention before a catastrophe of terrible proportions occurs. You may remember
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WHEN it came, the end of the siege at School No1 in the small north Ossetian town of Beslan was the worst possible outcome. It was protracted, chaotic and bloody and a catastrophe not just for the families
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By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. The hurricane some have called &quot;Ivan the Terrible&quot; could have been a lot more terrible.
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A deluge has created the conditions for an extended famine and taken the areaÂs woes to a whole new level.