Earthquake

The <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20031227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_earthquake">reports</a> of this Iranian earthquake are unbelievable to me. They have no idea how many have been killed but estimate it at 20,000 and believe that could as much as double. There aren't that many people in my hometown and if it gets to 40,000 dead that is half the population of the big city, in my mind it's a big city, of Billings. I just can't imagine. Of course the <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20031227/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iran">U.S. is going to pitch in and help</a>. Why don't we ever get credit for our good deeds among these countries?<br />n<br />n<b>Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.<br />nH. G. Wells (1866 – 1946)</b>