Month January 2005

Politics and tsunamis

Indonesia warned the thousands of aid workers providing relief to earthquake and tsunami victims in devastated Aceh province on Tuesday not to venture beyond two large cities because of militant threats The government of Indonesia, like that of Sri Lanka,…

Why oh why do they hate us?

A US warplane mistakenly dropped a 500-pound bomb yesterday on a house in a village near the northern city of Mosul, killing several Iraqis, according to witnesses and the US military. When this story originally broke, US military of course…

Imagine that

Fallujah Residents Angry Over Destruction When Ahmed Hussein Nasser returned to Fallujah weeks after a devastating U.S.-led campaign to retake the city from insurgents, he could barely recognize the city where he had spent all 66 years of his life.

Hiking through the a’a

10,000 ft. Mt. Haleakala on Maui erupts every 200 years or so, and when it does, a type of lava called a’a flows down the mountain to the sea. This photo of me was taken in the large a’a flow…