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NEW DELHI AP 鈥?Sunil Kumar watched helplessly in July as his home and 14 others were washed away by intense monsoon rains lashing the Indian Himalayas. All my lifes work vanished in an instant. Starting over feels impossible, especially with my three children relying on me, said Kumar, a waste collector in the village of Bhiuli, in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh.This year monsoon season in India was devastating, with local governments estimating 428 deaths and more than $1.42 billion in property damage in the region. But India was just one of many developing nations to suffer from extreme we stanley germany ather made worse or more likely by climate change, caused largely by greenhouse gas emissions that result from the burning of fossil fuels.Tropical storm Daniel hammered Libya with massive flooding in September, and Cyclone Freddy battered several African nations early in the year. Activists say all three disasters show how poorer nations, which historically have contributed less to climate change because they have emitted fewer planet-warming gases than developed countries, are often hit hardest by the impacts of global warming.____EDITORS NOTE: This article is part of a series produced un stanley cup der the India Climate Journalism Program, a collaboration between The Associated Press, the St stanley romania anley Center for Peace and Security and the Press Trust of India.___Developing nations had long sought to address the problem, and finally broke through with an agreement at last years annu Ywhr More than 600 people still stranded in Taiwan, 3 days after earthquake that killed at least 12
ATTLEBORO, MASS. 鈥?Dorothy B. Skinner Voikos McCullough, 91, of Attleboro, MA, passed away Sunday, August 31, 2014, at Home and Hospice Care, Providence, RI. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, February 24, 1923, she was a daughter of the late Peter Herkis and Evelyn stanley trinkflaschen Desmarais Skinner.Dorothy was educated in the Attleboro school system and, at the age of 46, Ms. McCullough went back to school and earned her high school equivalency certificate in Sanford, Maine, where she resided for several years before moving to the Bangor, Maine area. It was in Maine that she established a long-standing career as a self-employed antique dealer, selling at antique shows throughout New England for more than thirty years. She was a loving and devoted mother who always put her family first. She had many friends at Hope Gardens Senior Living in Attleboro where she lived.Along with her mother, she served as an American Red Cross Grey Lady during and after WWII. Ms. McCullough later became a member of the Gold Star Wives of America, Inc., an organization started at the end of World War II consisting of thousands of widows from that war and from all the wars that have followed. Her husband, John Voikos, died during World War II. She organized stanley kubek the Providence, RI chapter of Gold Star Wives of America, and was elected the first president. Dorothy helped organize the first New England Regional Conference in Boston and was elected president of the New England Region. S stanley uk he had been elected to the National Board |
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