SEVEN months after the tsunami, the devastation still surpasses all that we can imagine. As we fly the 300 kilometers of coastal areas between Banda Aceh and Meulaboh, it is harrowing thinking of the 200,000 lives lost and seeing the flooded land full of debris, punctuated by the flagstones of the houses torn by the invading sea, and the desolate encampments under the shade of the contorted coco