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...Eferdinger basin, a valley dotted with vegetable farms, into a 20- sq.-mi. lake. Saxony bore the brunt in eastern Germany, where a television station broadcast footage of an elderly woman plunging more than 30 feet into the roiling floodwater when rescuers attempted to airlift her out of danger; she later died in the hospital. Dozens of patients in Dresden's hospitals, including a day-old, 1-lb. 8-oz. baby, had to be evacuated by car and helicopter. With the Elbe River rising to its highest level in history, rescuers worked frantically to move thousands of paintings, including Raphael...
Amid all the upheaval, one thing seems certain: the airlines will probably leave passengers more confused and frustrated than they are today. "You get what you pay for. Southwest isn't a business airline. American is. But they're in danger of losing that distinction," says Chad Robertson, 25, a district manager for DaimlerChrysler who commutes once a week on American between Dallas and Texas outposts like Amarillo, Lubbock and Odessa. "The airlines may be hurting...
That such stories are far too easy to find is undeniable. Still, there are other children in danger's path--harmed and neglected in a thousand ways that don't offer melodramatic story lines or a chance for TV viewers to play detective--whose photos will never be passed around at press conferences and whose names will never be flashed above a freeway. While we may not know whether the number of kidnapped kids is rising, there is another figure--the number of children on public assistance whose checks go directly to them, not through a parent, because often...
...FOOD: Though it's not always easy to see it from the well-fed West, up to a third of the world is in danger of starving. Two billion people lack reliable access to safe, nutritious food, and 800 million of them--including 300 million children--are chronically malnourished...
...greatest danger to our future is apathy. We cannot expect those living in poverty and ignorance to worry about saving the world. For those of us able to read this magazine, it is different. We can do something to preserve our planet...