LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Attaching shutters to windows or embedding steel bars in new structures are some of the simple measure that should be employed to stop buildings from killing occupants in natural disasters, experts say.
Poor construction in Haiti was a major reason why so many people -- up to 300,000 according to the president -- died when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the impoverished nation in January, architects and disaster specialists said.
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