FOR the last week Kenneth Cukier, a Tokyo-based correspondent for The Economist, has been visiting disaster zones in north-eastern Japan to contribute to the paper's coverage of the "hydra-headed disaster".
The army says they committed suicide or died of natural causes, but many Bangladeshis believe they were silenced.So corruption like visiting disaster victims is low in the government's priorities.
Countless hours are spent creating an intricate synthetic world, be it a house or a whole city, inventing characters that speak a nonsense tongue known as Simlish, controlling their actions and sometimes visiting disaster upon them.
Knowing that the liberalised banking system has not only visited disaster on them, but on people far poorer, they might well start demanding justice not only at home, but abroad too.
Trying to smooth over complaints that inland areas like Haines City and Arcadia were receiving short shrift, Gov. Jeb Bush visited disaster areas away from the coast Sunday, listening to frustrated residents who believed they were not getting as much aid as needed or as quickly.
To solve some of these problems, Blum believes that both state and federal action is needed, particularly in the areas of liability reform, reimbursement for emergency department visits, disaster and terrorist preparedness, and public health education and legislation.
CORAL GABLES, Fla., Sept. 30 - Before arriving here for his first debate with his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry, President Bush spent 90 minutes Thursday morning visiting disaster-relief centers in Stuart, Fla., a town of 14,000 just west of where Hurricane Jeanne made landfall last weekend.
That strategy, if it amounts to that, would visit a disaster of epic proportions upon the world economy.
The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader who has not set foot in China since 1959, has issued a formal request to visit the disaster zone.
One political analyst close to senior officials said Mr. Wen had not planned to visit the disaster scene; a deputy prime minister who oversees work safety, Zhang Dejiang, was to handle the matter.
