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People and Places

by Mark Smith, S. Romey, and Kawailehua Kahumoku, editors

Tsunamis: Disaster implications global

The Pacific Disaster Center on Mau‘i today launched the Indian Ocean Tsunami Geospatial Information Service to support emergency managers responding to the tsunami disaster in South and Southeast Asia.

Thailand: Southeast Asia jewel largely untouched

Travel to Southeast Asia for Hawai‘i residents can be a real bargain for HPU students as well as any one who likes to travel. Thailand is the perfect vacation spot, where families, couples, and singles can enjoy a variety of outdoor and indoor activities such as sight- seeing, shopping, hiking, rock climbing, dining out, or relaxing on a white sand beach.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights activist

Martin Luther King Jr., civil right activist, never lived an average life, even one typical of an African American man in the 1960s.