European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 13 flood victim found others still sought searchers found the body of an 81yearold Man and were searching for As Many As six other people still missing thursday after Flash floods surged through the Edge of the Catskill National guard members and firefighters combed through acres of washed away uprooted Trees and mud covered roads in Rural Delaware its a massive state said Dennis Michalski of the state emergency management the key thing right now is search and the woodsy area 100 Miles Northwest of new York City was deluged with up to 8 inches of rain in two hours tuesday brits forecast lighter Hurricane season Miami British government forecasters Are predicting that the Atlantic Hurricane season May not be As Busy As their Ameri can counterparts it is most Likely that 10 More tropical storms will form from july to the British forecasters said an expected Cooling trend in Atlantic Ocean surface Waters favors fewer tropical storms than in re cent the British meteorologists said in their first Ever Hurri Cane season the British scientists did not pre dict a number of hurricanes that would form or How Many be come As american forecast ers there is a 70 percent Chance that the number of storms will be in the Range of seven to according to the in government fore casters predicted 13 to 17 tropical storms in the season that runs from june 1 to sewage overflow taints overseas airline trip Houston passengers who endured a today transatlantic Odyssey with sewage overflowing from a jets lavatories Are getting an apology from Continental air lines for the poor flight with 168 customers on took off june 13 from Amsterdam bound for but Only got As far As Shan because of a prob Lem with the the flight resumed the next Day after repair work seemed to restore smooth flow in the lavatory a Continental spokes Man said but during the flight from Shannon to new renamed flight the problem developed spokesman Dave Messing when the plane landed in new he it was determined that the blockage was caused by someone Flushing Latex gloves Down the a passenger told Seattle television station King that sewage flowed into the Only one re Stroom was partially and flight attendants kept serving meals but told passengers not to eat he called it the worst flight of his i was forced to sit next to human excrement for seven hours its a nauseating smell Collin Brock from the associated press study Sand More deadly than Sharks by Mike Stobbe the associated press Atlanta Waves and Sharks Arent the Only dangers at the More than two dozen Young people have been killed Over the past decade when Sand holes collapsed on report a Tjerandson doctors who have made warning of the risk their personal since at least 20 children and Young adults in the United states have died in Beach or Back Yard Sand and at least eight others died in austra new zealand and the United according to a letter from the doctors published in this weeks Issue of the new England journal of among them was Matthew who died from a col lapse at an after prom Beach party in in May the 17yearold was play ing football with friends when he jumped for a pass and fell Back Ward into an Lightfoot deep Hole someone had dug would be rescuers made the problem worse by caving in More Sand As they tried to approach people at the scene said he May have been buried 15 min said his people have no Conception of How dangerous this she in an interview this Sand Hole collapses occur horrifyingly said Bradley Maron of Harvard medical the reports Lead victims became completely submerged in the Sand when the Walls of the Hole unexpectedly leaving virtually no evidence of the Hole or location of the wrote an internal Medicine Resi a former be came interested in the topic in the summer of he was vacation ing with his family on marthas Vineyard when he and his Minnesota cardiologist Barry saw a lifeguard respond ing to a collapse that engulfed an 8yearold the girl thanks to a dramatic but it left a big impression on who spent years tracking and writ ing about similar its been almost like a vendetta for said Dennis who runs the Beach patrol in the marthas Vineyard Community of Edgartown and was Marons Boss that people naturally worry about Spla Shier like shark at the Marons re search found there were 16 Sand Hole or Tunnel deaths in the from 19902006 compared with 12 fatal shark for the same Peri according to University of Florida and Bradley Maron thinks the san related deaths Are less Well documented than shark at the father and son based their report largely on news Media accounts and internet most of the incidents were from the past 10 when internet reports were they counted 31 recreational Sand Hole deaths since 1985 in the United United Bill Clinton Steps into limelight of Campaign by Beth Fouhy the associated press new York Bill Clinton used to be a in his wife presidential raising Money and schmoozing supporters largely out of the pub Lic this the former presi Dent stepped into from his humorous turn in a new web video to the announcement that will join Hillary Rodham Clinton on High profile Campaign visits to Iowa and new aides say Bill Clinton Long planned to Campaign publicly for his and Hillary Clinton often promises audiences they will see a lot More of mindful of his Charisma and ten Dency to hog the the Campaign has played the Bill card carefully keeping him in the shadows while giving Hillary Clin ton time to establish herself inde they followed a Simi Lar pattern in 2000 when she first ran for the Senate in new the presidents plan All along was to gradually escalate his in so youll be seeing More arid said Campaign spokesman Howard Wolf we think he is a huge asset and were excited to have Bill Clinton has Cut Back on his paid speeches and completed the manuscript for a Book on citizen activism that will be published later this aides say he will continue to be Rex former president Clinton Waves during a dinner banquet in grand rap on who used to be a stealth presence in his wife presidential is stepping into the very Active with charitable foundation that bears his and he plans a we Klong trip to Africa next month on the found turns but his top priority continues to be making sure the candidate he believes will be the Best president who also happens to be his wife is said his Jay he has increased his fundraising for the Campaign since the last headlining intimate dinners and larger gatherings across the attendees at most events Are expected to give the maximum donation of he also narrated a five minute biographical web video and used his acting skills in a witty Send up of the final scene of the Supra the spoof won raves and Al ready has been viewed at least 5qq000 times on the campaigns web with More hits else where on the Australia and new they counted another 21 incidents in which a person was rescued from a in several cases by bystanders who performed the mostly ranged in age from 3 to 21 with the average age about unattended construction Sites have Long posed and one incident in the doctors compilation involving three girls who died in East in 1998 occurred in a rain soaked Clay when an embankment col those if added to the bring the death tally to Maron and others advise the Public not to let Young kids play in Sand and not to get in a Hole deeper than your on marthas life guards Are instructed to order children and adults out of any Hole deeper than a Childs and to kick Sand in to fill Arnold some parents pro  say youre ruining my kids Day i say i dont Arnold diplomats surveyed on mental health the associated press Washington some american diplomats who served in Afghanistan and other dangerous posts Are being surveyed this month by the state department about the stresses they encountered and the disorders that the Laurence the departments medical told a House foreign affairs subcommittee on is to develop better services including support groups to Deal with their mental health with the the depart ment is trying to reach those american civilians exposed with in the past five years to experiences that caused acute anxieties known More formally As Post Trau Matic stress Brown said the department Al ready has gathered some information in interviewing diplomats after they finished their assign in separate Steven vice president of the american foreign service Assoc said american diplomats were accustomed to serving under extremely difficult Condi he they Are not sol Diers and Are not trained for com yet they Are often directly exposed to War preliminary results of the sur vey suggest some 40 percent have struggled to readjust to civilian life and suffer from stress dior including thoughts of Sui cide and bodily he Testi the association represents members of the foreign ser vice As their labor