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...many Chinese, for whom the annual summer floods bring similar misery. But this year, the pain is being felt more widely than it has in a decade. More than 200 million people have been affected, including 5 million who have been evacuated from their homes, according to the Red Cross Society of China. More than 700 people have died. "It's already quite serious," says Victor Kan, relief coordinator for World Vision China. "We're still waiting to see what will develop...
...were killed. Relief experts attribute this year's lower toll to improved planning and communications that allowed most people to escape before the waters rose this year. "Because of early warning systems and government preparations, many villages were evacuated," says Gu Qinghui, regional disaster management delegate for the Red Cross...
...gasoline. Our complaints about them are loud and long. But how about the dearth of clean, accessible public bathrooms in the U.S.? Surely each of us knows the desperation of being stranded without a bowl when we needed it most. And yet it's a predicament that we quietly cross our legs and accept...
Scopes lost his case, and Bryan lost his reputation when he agreed to be cross-examined by Darrow on the literal meaning of the Bible. But the Scopes trial also made a moral point. Bryan reminded the court that two Chicago teenagers, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, had murdered a younger boy the year before to prove that they were Nietzschean supermen, capable of committing the perfect crime. Their attorney, Darrow, had saved them from the death penalty by arguing that Friedrich Nietzsche, and the universities that put him in their curriculums, bore the responsibility for the defendants' actions...
...finally upon us. Stardust opens Aug. 10, starring Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro. Beowulf, written by Gaiman and directed by Robert Zemeckis, is coming in November. Next year Dakota Fanning will star in Coraline, based on Gaiman's children's book. Is he about to cross over from the weird world of cult fame to the equally weird but more lucrative world of actual, real-world, mainstream fame? "Oh, God," says Gaiman. "I hope...