From earlier this month, 11-3-05:
British 10-year-old credited with saving 100 tourists from tsunami visits U.N., meets Bill ClintonUNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Tilly Smith, just 10 years old, put her geography lessons to good use: By quickly recognizing the warning signs of a tsunami, the English schoolgirl saved about 100 people from near-certain death at a Thai resort.
On Thursday, Tilly visited the United Nations and was to meet former President Bill Clinton, who is serving as the U.N. Special Envoy for the Tsunami Recovery.
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"My mum didn't realize what was happening on the beach because she wasn't taught about tsunamis when she was younger," said Tilly, who was in New York with her mother, father and sister. The Smith family all escaped the lethal waves after Tilly's early warning during their vacation on the island of Phuket.
Two weeks before the Dec. 26, 2004, disaster that took at least 178,000 lives, Tilly had studied tsunamis in her geography class in Oxshott, a community of about 5,000 just south of London. The children were shown a video from an earlier tsunami.
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