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...ever envision becoming so prolific a builder of latrines? -Ricardo Fernandez, Orland Park, Ill. [Laughs.] Ethiopia has one of the highest incidences of blind?ness on earth because of trachoma, which is caused by filthy eyes. To eliminate flies, we taught people how to build very simple latrines. Women have adopted building them as a kind of liberation movement - there had been a rigid taboo against a woman relieving herself in the daytime - so although we thought we'd have about 10,000 latrines, we've passed 340,000. Now instead of my being famous for negotiating peace between Israel...
...without a decent reason - the global political will to actually do something still seems lacking. It's now 20 years since the issue of climate change was first raised in the U.N.'s General Assembly chamber by the island nation of Malta, 15 years since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and 10 since after the Kyoto Protocol was drafted - and many governments speak as if they'd just discovered global warming. Other concerns remain more pressing, including the war in Iraq - a fact that was made apparent when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahadinejad (who skipped the climate meeting) gave...
...very much enjoyed Elizabeth Keenan's account of the extraordinary Finke river race in central Australia, and the certifiably crazy people who take part in it. I was intrigued, however, by the geologists' reference to the Finke as the "oldest river on earth." I am no hydrographer, but I have always thought one of the defining qualities of a river is water. Given that the Finke is almost permanently empty, shouldn't it be known as the oldest groove on earth? Anthony Connell, Sydney...
Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty, & Everything Glamour (Grand Central Publishing) Rachel Zoe and Rose Apodaca bring frothy celebrity looks down to earth with an accessible fashion handbook...
...forcing over a million to flee their homes in at least 20 countries. Since June, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya have had hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from their homes. Scores have died since. West Africa has seen its worst floods in years, with 300,000 fleeing the earth-colored waters of northern Ghana. Meanwhile, forecasts by African meteorologists say the rains have yet to peak. October may be the worst month to come in this very wet year...