http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html
The February 14, 2011 issue of Time magazine has on its cover, "Revolution, And what it means for the Middle East." The picture is a worn Egyptian flag silhouetted under a glowing sun and upheld by the nameless apostates. Their righteous hands carry the taut flag with a violent fervor, as if the flag were Liberty herself.
The news could not be sated by the wildly infectious revolutions occurring all over the middle east and north Africa.
Three days ago, the collision of four separate tectonic plates beneath Japan's eastern front registered an 8.9 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale and caused a tsunami taller than ten meters to decimate Japan.
A village of 17,000 estimates a death of 10,000 from its town alone.
Over the past couple of days, few seem solicitous of the Arab world's cause.
Tragedies like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan militate against the vanity and futility of my prose.
The speed with which the world has turned to Japan--as well as the exigency and alacrity--speaks I think to a deep humanity in all of us. International social, political, economic quarrels seem trifling when a blink from the world can change the future of humanity on such inconceivable levels.
Listen, watch, and read the news; grieving has not yet begun. The glib reports might to the uninformed reader demonstrate an unforgiving and inhuman portrait of the landscape. The nonchalance with which the news broadcasters, reporters, I, or anybody else I've spoken to, has approached this enormity is illustrative, not of our dissolute or immoral nature.
No, it rather speaks to the unspeakable tragedy of this spectacle; the utterly dumbfounding, stupefying, and tragically awesome power of nature; the inexplicable anguish.
The February 14, 2011 issue of Time magazine has on its cover, "Revolution, And what it means for the Middle East." The picture is a worn Egyptian flag silhouetted under a glowing sun and upheld by the nameless apostates. Their righteous hands carry the taut flag with a violent fervor, as if the flag were Liberty herself.
The news could not be sated by the wildly infectious revolutions occurring all over the middle east and north Africa.
Three days ago, the collision of four separate tectonic plates beneath Japan's eastern front registered an 8.9 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale and caused a tsunami taller than ten meters to decimate Japan.
A village of 17,000 estimates a death of 10,000 from its town alone.
Over the past couple of days, few seem solicitous of the Arab world's cause.
Tragedies like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan militate against the vanity and futility of my prose.
The speed with which the world has turned to Japan--as well as the exigency and alacrity--speaks I think to a deep humanity in all of us. International social, political, economic quarrels seem trifling when a blink from the world can change the future of humanity on such inconceivable levels.
Listen, watch, and read the news; grieving has not yet begun. The glib reports might to the uninformed reader demonstrate an unforgiving and inhuman portrait of the landscape. The nonchalance with which the news broadcasters, reporters, I, or anybody else I've spoken to, has approached this enormity is illustrative, not of our dissolute or immoral nature.
No, it rather speaks to the unspeakable tragedy of this spectacle; the utterly dumbfounding, stupefying, and tragically awesome power of nature; the inexplicable anguish.
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