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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1277)	12/18/1999 9:35:00 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 12245

Maurice.....appears to be a need for those well flung fish.....Tim TOKYO (AP) _ Japan's economic slump turned people out onto the streets at a dramatic pace this year, with the country's homeless population surging 26 percent from March, a report said Saturday. The number of homeless rose to 20,451 as of the end of November, an increase of about 4,200 people from the end of March, the mass-circulation Yomiuri Shimbun reported, citing a Health Ministry survey of local governments. One striking trend is that homeless are spilling out of major cities to suburbs as work in urban areas becomes increasingly scarce, the paper said. Until recently, homeless people were rarely seen outside of the chaotic commercial districts of big cities. "The severe economic situation is causing the homeless problem to grow even in provincial towns," the Health Ministry reportedly said in its study. The ministry was unavailable for comment over the weekend. Japan's worst recession since the end of World War II has triggered soaring unemployment as companies scramble to retrench through layoffs and hiring freezes. More than 80 percent of Japan's homeless were in the major cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Nagoya and Osaka, the Yomiuri said. In Tokyo alone, there were 5,800 homeless people as of August, almost a fourfold increase from the previous year.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1277)	12/18/1999 9:46:00 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12245

M....Great site....(comets and tsunami***)...thanks for the link...will keep me busy for a while....excerpt below....Tim In some circumstances an ocean impact might even be less hazardous to mankind than a land impact because less debris will be thrown into the atmosphere and indirect effects might be reduced. For example, it has been noted by Mader (1998) that the Eltanin impact by a large asteroid (estimates range from 1km to 4km) into the ocean near Chile some 2 million years ago did not create a crater on the seabed and apparently did not result in mass extinction. Contemplate what could have happened if the object had struck a slightly more northerly latitude and a few hours earlier - perhaps continental Africa would have been the target. Would Australopithecus, such as "Lucy", have survived? (Update: maybe it wasn't so benign - see this ABC News item about primate extinctions)