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February  2005                                                                              Volume 8 - Number 1

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Guest Contribution:
- National Full Scale Exercise in Guatemala Event: Earthquake.
By Walter Wintzer, Education and Training Manager, Executive Secretariat of the National Coordinating Office for Disaster Reduction

Perspectives:
- Three years after 9/11:  Are we vulnerable to another terrorist attack? By Ron Molway
- My Perception of Terrorism Risk By Anhdai Tran 
- 1991 Mount Pinatubo Eruption:  The Sleeping Giant Awakened By:  Claudette Fetterman
- Remembering Disasters By Rachel Tardiff
- America’s Reaction to the Tsunami in Asia and East Africa By Rebecca Updike
- Personal Perception on the Risk of Terrorism By Joanie Rainey
- Life: A Series of Sudden or Great Misfortunes By Diane E. Sentgeorge
- Personal Perspective on the Terrorism Risk. By Lamonte D. Purdie
- Bush’s Freedom Agenda Must Look Beyond the Tsunami By Bridger McGaw 

Disaster Updates
- Chemical Release in South Carolina. By Julie Margolis
- Mudslide Ravages California Town. By Sondra Mendelson
- PAHO Book: - Guidelines for Handling Bodies after Disaster. By Teri Lepovitz

Tsunami Disaster Updates
- Accounting for the Tsunami Missing By Jim Moran
- International Relief Efforts for Tsunami Victims By Brian Costlow
- Tsunami Statistics By, Jacklyn Blecker
- European Union Response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami By: Jenifer Lee
- The economic impacts and property damage caused by the Tsunami disaster By Matt Briston
- Tamil Tigers prove to be Stars in the Tsunami relief effort! By Aaron Morningstar
- World Health Organization’s (WHO) Tsunami relief efforts By Kashif Javaid
- Tsunami Relief Aid Provided by Countries of the Middle East By Lynn Neville
- Chronology of events concerning the tsunami disaster By Nick Lawyer
- Does any country gain diplomatic and political good will by providing tsunami relief aid? By Jason Olson
- Report on United States relief efforts for the tsunami disaster By Jeffrey Goldberg
- Oregon Tsunami Warning System By Erika Kuhn
- Flood Warning and Evacuation Program in Bangladesh By Patrick Kennedy
- The US Response to the Tsunami: a Coordinated Effort? By David Talbot
- Relief Aid to Tsunami Disaster by the Government of Japan. By Anthony M. Lee
- Red Cross and Red Crescent Relief Efforts - Re: South Asia Tsunami By Matt Hewett
- Leftists party gives tsunami relief and earns populous support By Keenon M. James
- NGO Role in Community Disaster Relief By William L. Haynes