Documents. 1  Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World: guidelines for natural disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation. 2  Report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, 18â22 January 2005 in PDF format. 3  Timetable for Kobe conference in PDF format.
Bessie Blount, was a physical therapist who worked with soldiers injured in W.W.II. Her war service inspired her to patent a device, in 1951, that allowed amputees to feed themselves.
Sir Mark Sykes, a crusty diplomat who had colluded with the French to give them Damascus, was more defiantly a misogynist. Gertrude of Arabia, the Woman Who Invented Iraq Clive Irving June 17, 2014 There are unions and crusty local politicians to contend with, and a lot of competition. Walmartâs Anti-Union Wage Plans Earn a Cold Shoulder From Big Cities Daniel Gross July 11, 2013 But crusty old Bob Dole was surely not considered more likeable than Bill Clinton in 1996.