First-person accounts of third-world tragedies we didn't finish reading:

WELIGAMA, Sri Lanka, Dec. 26 -- Disaster struck with no warning out of a faultlessly clear blue sky.

I was taking my morning swim around the island that my brother Geoffrey, a businessman, had bought on a whim a decade ago....

It Seemed Like a Scene From the Bible

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