Tsunami news and notes

The Jackson Sun News: "As pledges for the tsunami crisis neared $4 billion, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Wednesday that he feared tens of thousands of people dying of starvation elsewhere in the world would be forgotten. ''I am afraid that we may see now not the same degree of generosity in other parts of the world and that would be the ultimate irony if money in the end were taken from equally poor and devastated (people),'' Jan Egeland told The Associated Press in an interview.

More than 30,000 people around the world die each day from starvation, disease and neglect, he said, adding that since the tsunami struck on Dec. 26, some 300,000 people have died in humanitarian emergencies elsewhere."