Village schools shut after mass deaths in coast disaster
The disaster, near Port Moresby, left 700 confirmed dead including 500 in Warapu. Rescue teams struggle with remoteness as C-130s deliver a field hospital and 100 medical staff. Schools at Arop, Sissano, and Warapu closed due to lack of children.
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Tsunamis: Causes and Historic Destructive Waves
Tsunamis arise from underwater earthquakes landslides or volcanoes and can travel up to 450 mph with waves from inches to hundreds of feet. Historic events include Krakatau 1883 with 100 ft waves killing over 26 000, Alaska 1946 Hawaii 159 dead, and Sea of Japan 1993 about 200 dead. Pacific Ocean region most affected by tsunamis from long history.
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Hawaii
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Papua New Guinea facts and figures summary
Papua New Guinea, a 4 million strong Melanesian population, likely migrated from Asia 10 000 to 50 000 years ago. It hosts about 700 languages with pidgin or tok pisin as the common lingua franca. The country lies north of Australia, on half of New Guinea Island, with rain forests, central highlands reaching up to 15 000 feet, and rugged coasts with crocodile rivers. Most people practice subsistence farming while mining activity expands gold copper oil and gas extraction.
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Australia
New Guinea
Kertara Vike
Highlands
Starr Seeks Records Of White House Lawyer Meetings
The White House lawyer visit logs may reveal dates of Clinton meetings with his private attorneys. Starr aims to learn if aides were present to challenge privilege, with emphasis on the December 28 meeting cited by Newsweek as relevant to Lewinsky's deposition questions.
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Newsweek Magazine
Newsweek
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SUNY New Paltz gifts rise after sexuality conference controversy
SUNY New Paltz reports record donations in 1998 and a fall 1998 surge in applications. Campus President Roger Bowen cites gifts surpassing the prior year’s peak by about $250,000 of an $11 million fundraising year. He notes some donors attach messages supporting academic freedom and free speech.
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New Paltz
Roger Bowen
Bowen
Women’s Studies
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Seinfeld Tour Marks U S Stand Up Solo
Jerry Seinfeld headlines a one man stand up tour in San Antonio Texas on Saturday night performing routines about nothing seedless watermelons skydiving and aging drivers. A Pittsburgh pool accident left Yvonne Uhlig 47 seriously injured after being swept from a collapsing above ground pool into a ravine with hospital care sought as neighbors helped.
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Len Mercyanis
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Plan to create national health identifier sparks privacy fears
The Clinton administration quietly moves to assign each American a unique health identifier, a mandatory 1996 mandated code intended to build a national medical history database from cradle to grave. The proposal arrives as legislation to protect patient privacy lingers in Congress, marking the first broad national ID system since Social Security began in 1935.
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Clinton
Social Security
Clinton Promotes Plan for School Discipline
President Clinton outlined a plan to offer teachers relief from troubled students, including school uniforms, strict curfews, and anti gun policies. He spoke at the American Federation of Teachers convention in New Orleans and announced a White House conference on school safety in October.
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Britain defense plan praised by White House
The Clinton administration praised Britain's radical defense shift announced by Defense Secretary George Robertson to create a more capable force for distant hotspots. Officials say the plan, aimed at aligning Britain with NATO allies, could spread among other members.
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Disabled veteran survives two days after pickup crash
John Rotan, 50, of Gloucester Virginia, a Vietnam veteran with a broken leg, was stranded for two days after his pickup crashed in a bog. He improvised food from grubs and blackberries, used mud to deter insects, and, after pushing his wheelchair through mud to reach solid ground, rolled nearly a half mile to a paved road.
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John Rotan
Dallas Heat Sees 100 Degree Days and Rain Prayer
Farmers on the southern Plains gathered Sunday to pray for rain as a heat wave scorched the area. Weather officials warned temperatures at or above 100 degrees would continue through midweek. The heat wave has been linked to dozens of deaths, with reports of 43 migrants found dead while attempting to cross deserts and open range. Dallas hit 100 degrees by noon marking the 14th straight day of triple digit warmth.
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GM Saturn plant workers vote to authorize strike
GM Saturn plant workers vote overwhelmingly to authorize a strike over GM sourcing moves. About 95 percent approval signals rising labor unrest at the world’s largest automaker as seven weeks of strikes at two parts factories continue and Saturn in Spring Hill remains the sole U.S. GM assembly plant producing vehicles.
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General Motors Corp
Saturn
Spring Hill
Tenn
United States
EPA appeals ruling on secondhand smoke cancer link
Washington The Clinton administration expects to appeal a federal judge who struck down the 1993 EPA finding that secondhand tobacco smoke increases cancer risk. The EPA stood by its report which linked secondhand smoke to over 3,000 lung cancer deaths annually. Judge William Osteen ruled the study did not show a statistically significant association and did not include industry input.
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Clinton
Environmental Protection Agency
U.S
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EPA
Rescuers Free Man Trapped In New York Cave
Rescue crews freed Craig Douglas twenty four year old Medford Massachusetts man who had been pinned for more than a day in a cave narrow crevice about 150 feet below ground in Gallupville New York. Officials said he might not be removed from the cave until today as a doctor evaluated his condition.
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Sunday
Massachusetts
Craig Douglas
Medford
Mass
Merheatinn Urhathar
Scent of hydrogen sulfide signals lake pollution in Adirondacks
Michael Martin of Paul Smith's College explains the odor at Eagle Craig Lake in the Adirondacks stems from hydrogen sulfide produced by anaerobic bacteria. He links the gas to decaying matter from leaky septic systems, a widespread North Country issue threatening lake water quality.
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Eagle Craig Lake
Adirondacks
Michael Martin
Martin
Adirondack Aquatic Institute
Paul Smith's College
Plane lands on Malone highway balks in rural ditch
A Vermont pilot Ronald Ellis 31 of St Albans was hospitalized after his Cessna 172 K lost power and struck an electricity line, forcing an emergency landing on Route 374 near Malone Franklin County at about 6 30 p m Saturday. Terrified drivers watched as the single engine plane skidded into a ditch following the highway landing.
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Vermont
Ronald Ellis
St. Albans
Franklin County
Kodak worker elected state American Legion chief
Rochester machine operator Robert L. Morrill, 51, a Hastman Kodak Co. employee, was chosen leader of the state American Legion. His priority is rallying support for a proposed constitutional amendment before Congress to protect the flag from desecration and to address related protections.
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Hastman Kodak Co
American Legion
Robert L. Morrill
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