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| NOT A USUAL EXERCISE Soldiers smell the ground to detect bodies of flash flood victims in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot battered the island's southern region in the second week of August. The typhoon, which Met officials call the deadliest in 50 years, also triggered mudslides; one such mudslide buried the entire town of Xiaolin. The government of Taiwan said it would take more than three years to reconstruct the devastated region. |
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