Here are the runs of all top three women in the Downhill at World Cup Finals. American Julia Mancuso won while Swiss skier Laura Gut and Austiran skier Elizabeth Goergl came in third. All three runs are shown here. Julia's is the last. Listen to the announcers go wild at her run.

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Julia Mancuso won the Downhill during world cup alpine skiing finals.  She has pledged to give half of her winnings to the charity skiers helping japan that she helped found with two Japanese skiers and her friend the British skier Chemmy Alcott. The goal is to raise at least $100,000.00.  The funds will be dispersed to various Japanese charities ( Read more... )

"If everyone's got nothing, everyone's got the same," Isao Nagai, 62, said, standing in a cold junior high school gym in Ofunato. About 150 survivors huddled under blankets. Some dozed, others talked or read the newspaper. "There's a comfort we get from each other. It's simple. We've all got nothing. Not half or some. Nothing."

Kinuyo Kojima, whose ( Read more... )

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A nursing home full of frail elderly people within the evacuation area, can not move their residents because of lack of petrol and the weakness of the patients.  They have no heat to avoid drawing radiation into the building and only a few days of food ( Read more... )

People in shelters for those evacuated from the area around the Nuclear plants feel abandoned by the world:

Aid agencies are reluctant to get too close to the plant. Shelters set up in the greater Fukushima area for "radiation refugees" have little food, in part because nobody wants to deliver to an area that might be contaminated. And with little ( Read more... )

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The People in Japan who have taken refuge in schools and community centers  are suffering in cold, crowded unheated buildings without sanitation and little food or water.  Many of them are old people who have no medication and are in danger from cold and dehydration. They suffer the most: 
"For survivors, in a ( Read more... )

An experienced surfer and swimmer, Hideaki Akaiwa, 42, was at work miles from home when the tsunami hit. He rushed back to find a ten foot high sea of water between him, his neighborhood and his wife of twenty years.  He found scuba gear and swam in freezing temperatures through the floating piles of debris, dodging traps and wreckage till he was ( Read more... )

A Shelter in a school gymnasium:


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The American skier Julia Mancuso teamed up with two Japanese skiers to raise money for the earthquake victims in Japan.  The three of them are asking skiers at the World Cup Finals this week to donate some or all of their winnings to the relief work in Japan.  The winnings from such an event can be tens of thousands of dollars.  Neither Japanese ( Read more... )

What's all the anger at NPR.  So one of their fundraisers believes the Republican party is anti-intellectual and the Tea Party is inspired by racism?  These are unspeakable opinions?  Really ( Read more... )