• Coastal plight : Australian hostage Coastal plight : Australian hostage The Courier, Houma, La. May 8, 2005 Crews are hard at work on an IMAX film that will bring the plight of Louisiana’s disappearing wetlands to giant screens around
• Coastal plight : Australian hostage
Coastal plight : Australian hostage
The Courier, Houma, La. May 8, 2005
Crews are hard at work on an IMAX film that will bring the plight of Louisiana’s disappearing wetlands to giant screens around the country. Crews were in a field in Dularge, which remains flooded since a levee broke during Hurricane Matthew in October.
The 40-minute film, now titled “Hurricane Warning,” is set for release to IMAX theaters and other large-format cinemas in June 2006.…
The Discovery Channel is producing a documentary titled “Coastal Crisis: The Vanishing Lands,” which could help position Louisiana’s scientists and researchers as leaders in the fight against declining ecosystems across the globe.… Proposals aimed at winning the billions of dollars it will take to fix the problem are once again winding their way through Congress. The more people begin to realize that this is not just Louisiana, or south Louisiana’s problem, the more likely it is that Congress will put up the money it will take to do something about it.…
Louisiana has lost 1,900 square miles of land since the 1930s — a land mass the size of Delaware. Somehow, we think if Delaware were to sink into the ocean, Congress and the president — and the rest of the country — would do something about it.…
Australian hostage
The Age, Melbourne, Australia May 5, 2005
In an interview before he was taken hostage in Iraq at the weekend, Australian engineer Douglas Wood appeared to take the dangers of working as a foreigner there somewhat lightly. “I’ve heard the sounds of mortars dropping nearby, rifle fire in the streets, but this is like occasional background music,” he said. “The reality is that it’s not all that difficult. There are probably scarier places in downtown (Washington) DC.” But then kidnappers took Mr. Wood, 63, and gave him a different perspective on the perils of his chosen life. In a two-minute video, he called for US, Australian and British authorities to withdraw their troops from Iraq. Australian Prime Minister John Howard has predictably – and rightly – said he will not bow to terrorist demands, but in the meantime the Government is doing what it can to secure Mr. Wood’s freedom.…
An extra 450 Australian troops are now settling into southern Iraq, and although Mr. Howard has made it clear Mr. Wood’s capture will not stop their deployment, he is doubtless sincere when he says the taking of an Australian hostage has been his “great dread”.…
- Provided by the Associated Press.
