But the discovery of the unnamed child has given fresh hope that others might be found alive in the shattered landscape which covers scores of miles of the east coast of Honshu island.
But critics are sniping that building Western-themed towns on Shanghai's outskirts is impractical and insensitive in a country that once served as a stomping ground for foreign imperialists.
Negotiators have released a draft version of a new global agreement on climate change, which is widely billed as the last chance to save the planet from the ravages of global warming.
Teeming , environmentally degraded , ravaged by poverty , hunger , HIV/AIDS and civil war , Africa appears the most plausible candidate ever to suffer a Malthusian disaster .
Conflict too brings health crises, as devastated and displaced populations lose contact with medical services and experience increased vulnerability and trauma.
Deceptions sof a superpower are only a distraction that allow these two nations to abuse their citizens and exploit the citizens of other nations like those on the African subcontinent.
In famine from the ash, with the bulk of their civilization washed away, the remaining Minoans were overrun by Mycaeneans from Greece, and Knossos finally fell.
And this evil man (Thaksin) who wants everything to be his and his family's just will not let go and want to come back and rape the country over and over again.
A children's book author and illustrator, Mrs Kessing campaigns to save wild-life from the depredations of cats and other introduced animals, including camels, donkeys and wild horses.
The animals' massive size allowed them to trample infantry and their unsettling smell caused horses to panic and flee, giving the beast a stunning tactical advantage in the field.
His frustrated life experience and his identity both as one of the members of a devastated nation and an intellectual of the first world influenced his entire writing career.
However, these abilities have not in all cases been used in harmony with the environment. In fact, man's continuous exploitation of the earth's resources is degrading our environment and ecosystem.
For the Princess, the trip to this war-torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause.
Now in a normal battle, the Velites would simply avoid the elephants due to their greater mobility and the elephants would crash into the infantry causing devastation.
They built up also at that time mount Sion, with high walls, and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come, and tread it down as they did before.
With immediate suture of the torn bronchus and trachea and stabilization of the spine fracture on the following day, we achieved a successful outcome in this patient.
Despite the ravages of AIDS and a plethora of other diseases Africa's populations continue to outstrip the carry capacity of the continental resource base.
It is a flagrant act trampling on the Chinese-Romanian businessmen's legitimate interest; it caused indignation among thousands of shop owners of Chinese and of other nationalities.
Given the current Gulf of Mexico oil-spill disaster it's easy to become cynical and imagine the fragile terrestrial worlds of the solar systems being ravaged for greed and profit.
A month ago the big question in the foreign-exchange market was how low the down-trodden euro could go. Now currency watchers are asking themselves the opposite question.