2005.01.22

Missing, presumed dead. [BBC News ] Twenty five days after the Asian tsunami, thousands of people are still missing. Some may yet turn up alive, but for their families, the hope may be as painful as the despair. 2005.01.22

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Solar storm buffets Earth. [spacetoday.net] A powerful series of solar storms have struck the Earth in recent days, likely responsible for putting satellites serving the Asia-Pacific region on the fritz. 2005.01.22

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Japan-Universal Studios [Mainichi Shimbun] Trouble-plauged Universal Studios Japan suffers another setback with a female worker strangled in an ice crusher. 2005.01.22

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Japanese team discovers 3,500-year-old mummy in Egypt (AFP). A Japanese research team has found "a perfect mummy" in an undisturbed Egyptian tomb believed to be more than 3,500 years old. 2005.01.22

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Disaster Conference-Resolution (VOA) UPDATED U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe bows to pressure from U.S., oil producing countries and other nations and guts outcome document removing most references to "climate change." EU and Bangladesh had led fight to heavily link global warming to increase in disasters. Conference also does not adopt, as many NGO's had demanded, numerical targets for reducing the number of deaths in the next 10 years caused by disasters. 2005.01.22

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Japan-NHK vs Asahi (Kyodo) Feud between NHK and Asahi Shimbun shows no signs of quieting. 2005.01.22

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