Pakistan floods: Could 'donor fatigue' harm
A Pentagon official called the Pakistan floods the 'worst natural disaster' in the country's history. He worries that Pakistan might feel slighted that the US military has not been as engaged as it was after the Haiti earthquake earlier this year.
A senior US military official expressed concern today about “donor fatigue” in the wake of what he called “without a doubt the single worst natural disaster in Pakistan’s history.”
While the military has rescued some 12,800 people in the flood-ravaged region and delivered 4 million pounds of food aid, some officials nonetheless worry about whether Pakistan – a key US ally and neighbor to Afghanistan – will consider these efforts enough in the wake of considerable US military aid efforts in Haiti earlier this year.
Vice Adm. Michael LeFever, commander of the Office of the Defense Representative–Pakistan, said in a Pentagon briefing Wednesday that while the figure of some 1,600 dead “may not seem high” compared to, for example, the Haitian earthquake, in which over 200,000 people are estimated to have perished, the extent of the damage is “unbelievable” and ongoing. Full Story
Made In The USA
American manufacturing has undergone a massive revolution over the past 20 years. Despite all the gloom and doom, America is actually the number one manufacturing nation on earth. Yul Kwon crosses the nation looking at traditional and not-so traditional types of manufacturing. Click Here For Full Story
WTC back on top in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — One World Trade Center is expected to claim the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper, as workers erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet tall.
That's just high enough to peak over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building. Full Story
FAA head resigns after DWI arrest in Va.
Randy Babbitt says he will resign as head of the Federal Aviation Administration following his arrest over the weekend on charges of drunken driving.Babbitt said in a statement Tuesday that he didn't want to allow anything to "cast a shadow" on the work done by his colleagues at the FAA.
The 65-year-old Babbitt was arrested Saturday night in Fairfax City, Va., by a patrolman who said the FAA administrator was driving on the wrong side of the road.
City of Fairfax Police said at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, an officer saw a vehicle driving on the wrong side of the road on Old Lee Highway and initiated a traffic stop. FULL STORY
Submarine escape: A WWII survival tale from Kefalonia
Seventy years ago, off the Greek island of Kefalonia, the British submarine HMS Perseus hit an Italian mine, sparking one of the greatest and most controversial survival stories of World War II.
The clear waters of the Mediterranean were a death trap for British submarines in World War II.
Some were bombed from the air, others hunted with sonar and depth charges, and many, perhaps most, collided with mines.
Two fifths of the subs that ventured into the Mediterranean were sunk and when a submarine sank it became a communal coffin - everyone on board died. That was the rule.
In fact, during the whole of the war there were only four escapes from stricken British submarines. And the most remarkable of these took place on 6 December 1941, when HMS Perseus plummeted to the seabed. (Full Story)
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