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...before reaching the South China Sea--water levels surged as far as 45 ft. (about 14 m) above the river's dry-season lows. Meanwhile, in Burma, which is still recovering from a cyclone that killed at least 84,000 people in May, torrential rains have forced people to flee their homes--particularly residents of the Irrawaddy delta, one of the areas hardest hit by the deadly spring storm...
...routine. He spent his first four years in South Central Los Angeles, the son of illegal immigrants from Mexico City. His father, Jorge Cejudo, was a career criminal who shuttled in and out of jail. Nelly Rico, Henry's mother, moved her six kids to New Mexico to flee Jorge before he got out of a California prison...
...water. The bacteria also proliferate wildly, taking over the ecosystem and exacerbating the oxygen depletion. If conditions like strong currents, which are common in summer, prevent oxygen-rich water from the surface from mixing with lower layers, bottom-dwelling animals like lobsters, crabs and flounder in that area either flee or die. Relatively immobile animals such as oysters, clams and worms are particularly susceptible to annihilation. Such deaths take the bottom out of the marine food chain, helping to create sustained dead zones...
...first is a permanent display that takes visitors through Jewish history in Shanghai. Photos show Jewish girls holding Chinese dolls and families celebrating Passover. The second hall opened in June with an exhibit dedicated to Ho Fengshan, a diplomat known as the "Chinese Schindler" for helping hundreds of Jews flee Austria in the late 1930s...
...They flee by the thousands -- in horse-drawn carts stacked high with clothes and furniture; on bicycles balancing precarious bundles; on foot, arms laden with any belongings they can carry. Since Abkhazian rebels broke a Russian- mediated cease-fire and drove Georgian forces out of the Black Sea region, seizing its capital, Sukhumi, an estimated 200,000 Georgians are thought to have been uprooted. Some have been trudging for days through the bitter-cold, snow-covered mountains of the Caucasus, headed mainly into cities of western Georgia. In Sukhumi the Abkhazian insurgents are accused of having carried out mass ''ethnic...