[lit-ideas] the sky is falling criers

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
  • To: Yaakov@xxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:02:52 EST

_http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&e=2&u=/ap/tsunami_weather
_forecaster_ 
(http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&e=2&u=/ap/tsunami_weather_forecaster)
    
<<BANGKOK, Thailand - Until two weeks ago,  Smith Thammasaroj was a prophet 
without honor. As chief of Thailand's  meteorological department in 1998, he 
was accused of scare-mongering when he  warned that the country's southwest 
coast could face a deadly tsunami.  
He retired under a shadow, dismissed as a crackpot,  accused of causing panic 
and jeopardizing a critical tourist industry that grew  up around the 
tropical resort island of Phuket.  
Today, Smith is being lionized for his foresight after the devastating Dec.  
26 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed more than 150,000 people around the  
region, including 5,300 in Thailand, where 3,600 more are listed as missing.  
Less than a week after the tragedy, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra  
appointed Smith as a vice minister and put him in charge of the newly  
established 
National Disaster Warning Office, which will work with seismologists  to 
establish a tsunami early warning system.  >>

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