Midwest Earthquakes Poorly Understood

Read this article about midwest earthquakes and how they may end up doing some real damage from atlanta to Minneapolis.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080419/ap_on_re_us/midwest_earthquake

World Disasters Report 2007

The International Red Cross annual report in on-line. It is interesting that it is subtitled, Focus on Discrimination

http://www.ifrc.org/Docs/pubs/disasters/wdr2007/WDR2007-English.pdf

Scientist: CDC Bosses Ignored Warning

A federal scientist said Tuesday his bosses ignored
pleas
to alert Gulf Coast hurricane victims earlier about severe health risks
from
formaldehyde in government-issued trailers and once told him not to
write
e-mails about his concerns.

read the entire AP article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_go_ot/fema_trailers_cdc