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...village of Panidhar is a cluster of 18 mud, brick and bamboo houses in a poor, wet corner of eastern India. Its problems will sound familiar to anyone who has traveled through the country's thick rural darkness. Panidhar's 195 residents live on rice and fish from the surrounding paddy fields and ponds; lucky children get vegetables and lentils, too, but few go to school. The brick factory across the Ichamati River sends boats to fetch a few of the young men; the rest have left for cities many miles away...
...right shoulder, opening up a commanding two-goal Harvard lead. But BU responded in impressive fashion, as forward Nick Bonino erased the deficit with a pair of goals 1:43 apart, the first a one-timer from the left side off a pass out of the corner. After a subsequent Crimson hooking penalty, Bonino took a backside pass from captain Matt Gilroy and scooped a backhand past Hoyle.The next Terrier power play was successfully killed thanks in part to a sprawling save by Hoyle, and neither team found another opening the rest of the period to set up the memorable...
...dimly lit corner of a Paris bar a delighted young divorcée describes in a soft voice how she spent the day throwing snowballs for the first time in her life. That is not remarkable. This is: Nujood Ali is just 10 years old - and was, until recently, the youngest known divorced person in the world...
...final days of 2008, residents of Australia's southeast might have been forgiven for thinking summer had finished early. On the island state of Tasmania in the far south, freezing gales blew, blanketing mountains with snow. In the state of Victoria, in the southeastern corner of the mainland, the number of sunny hours a day dropped from the normal 8.3 to a mere seven. "Where has our summer gone," moaned a newspaper report, while some readers commented that it made you wonder if global warming was real...
Britain may have lost some of its olde-worlde charms to the dual forces of modernizing government and globalization, but there's one corner of the nation left largely untouched by progress. Parliament's Upper Chamber, the House of Lords, with its 743 members, including 92 who are there only by dint of their aristocratic lineage, remains a byword for tradition and gentility. Those qualities were at least partially reflected in a recent headline from The Sunday Times: "Whispered over tea and cake: price for a peer to fix the law." According to the article, the polite rituals of afternoon...