BEFORE THE ENORMOUS might of nature, mankind and its achievements are mere playthings, fully subject to its whims. This fact comes home to me while watching a photo of a ferry hanging on top of a two-storey building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, and a train dismembered like trampled centipede among the debris that the recent tsunami in Japan left behind on its wake. It silenced the bloody disturbances in the Middle East, at least as far as local media coverage is concerned. It awakens the eyes of the world on how the technology that man created can turn against him with a simple nod from nature. Useful as they seem in powering up homes and industries, the destructive display of the forces of earth and water strikes home the fact that even Japan cannot master a human technology gone wrong. That will serve as a lesson that must be thought hard and long before our own Bataan Nuclear Plant be allowed to have its switch flipped on. Will the Philippines do better? Do we have the capability
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