America Finds Creative Ways to Aid Victims
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A Kentucky widow, moved by the cries of grief she heard in reports about the tsunami disaster in south Asia, invited her entire town to a New Year's Eve bash to raise money for the victims. In California, a college offered free basketball tickets, with a gift for relief efforts the only price of admission.
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The relief effort moves in fits and starts in 11 nations where infrastructure has been destroyed and disease looms. By Chris Brummitt / Associated Press.
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LONDON -- The US government is contributing $35 million of the half-billion dollars that the world's developed nations are donating to the tsunami relief effort, and many Americans believe -- as President Bush put it earlier this week -- that their country is being its typical ''generous, kindhearted" self.
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Ohio Gov. Bob Taft is asking Ohioans to reach into their pockets to help victims of the Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster. In a statement, Taft asked for cash donations to be made to the American Red Cross International Response Fund.
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One school of thought would provide alternative development aid locally. The other focuses on prevention, rehabilitation, and treatment.
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In an age of multimillion-dollar high-tech weapons systems, sometimes it's the simplest ideas that can save lives. Which is why a New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String to Iraq.
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President Bush on Saturday offered a long list of ways the United States is trying to help victims of the deadly tsunami in South Asia.
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Many U.S. companies dig deep to help tsunami victims in Southeast Asia.
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Advances in treatment of horrific battlefield injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan that have saved the lives of many U.S. soldiers who would have died in previous wars may yield valuable techniques for treating civilian trauma victims, military doctors said.
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Memphis - The American Red Cross is one of the organizations front and center in the effort to help victims of the Asian earthquake and tsunami.
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An international organization and other humanitarian agencies are beginning to help Liberia recover from the ashes of war. Most of the organizations are endeavoring to shoulder the responsibilities of the
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It's not just a blue chip for widows and orphans.
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By Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 19--Everywhere you look right now, you'll see some organization asking for assistance to help someone in need. You may even start to feel overwhelmed by all the requests.
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WASHINGTON/JAKARTA  - U.S. presidents past and  present appealed to all Americans Monday to aid victims of the  Asian tsunami, as rescuers struggled to get food and water to  those clinging to life on shattered coastlines.
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Americans are making donations to the victims of the Asian tsunami at a rate second only to the outpouring of charity after the 11 September 2001 attacks.
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When a new Congress convenes next week, lawmakers will call on the Bush administration to do all it can to help victims of the tsunamis in Asia and Africa. Questions of how much aid will be needed &#151; and how to pay for it &#151; will come later.
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Across the United States, a growing number of children are living in shelters or group homes.