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Short makes a difference a world away.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-APR-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Short makes a difference a world away.(Columns)(Column)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Ron Bellamy / The Register-Guard

Last week, Matt Short returned from a month in Thailand as part of a local group that helped build houses in Ban Bang Sak, a small fishing village on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula on the Indian Ocean, about an hour north of Phuket.

This is what the Oregon men's basketball player saw:

Raw foundations where buildings used to be before the Dec. 26 earthquake and resultant tsunami killed more than 174,000 people in South Asia, leaving 106,000 missing and 1.5 million homeless.

Old fishing boats, and a large metal police boat, left on a hillside, more than a mile...

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