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Brothers in Arms
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On the morning of Dec. 26 last year, Jake and Aleksis Zarins were lying in their beds at the Rock House hotel in Unawatuna, Sri Lanka, nursing heavy post-Christmas hangovers. For the past month the English brothers had been lounging around the palm-lined village on the country's southwest coast. At 9:25 a.m. the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the tropical retreat, and that long holiday came to an abrupt end. "I heard a loud rumbling outside the hotel," Jake remembers. "I looked out of my window and there was water as far as I could see." He woke Aleksis, who was stunned...