ABSTRACT
Natural and man-made disasters kill massively and randomly. Grief follows in their train. Daily, the media flashes words and agonizing images of natural disasters. floods in Bangladesh, India, and North Korea; tsunamis and typhoons in Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, China and Southeast Asia; cyclones in Burma, Bangladesh, droughts-cum-famine in Darfur, Australia, and the former U.S.S.R.; hurricanes in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic coast, and New Orleans; earthquakes in China, Kashmir, Peru, San Francisco, Mallipo Beach in South Korea; fires in Greece and Southern California; Tornadoes in the Midwest, South, and Southwestern USA.
