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Washed Away BANGLADESH United Nations officials arrived in the partially submerged capital, Dhaka, to assess the damage caused by the monsoon floods that have claimed almost 1,300 lives across South Asia. The government has put the cost of flood damage at almost $7 billion...
Modern life presents a dispiriting dichotomy. We are inundated with information about the world we know, or think we know, but often that flood of news can drown the stories of people and places outside the public eye. Some escape our gaze because of geographical remoteness, or because they lie in a culture of secrecy. Distance can be overcome by modern-day communications and transport. Firing up the imagination is a harder task. So much remains hidden because we don't know where to look or because our curiosity has been dulled: we've forgotten...
...dominated by religious hard-liners. "The current government we can live with," she says. "We're very worried about what comes next." Those anxieties are spurring a few activists to venture into the political arena; the only chance they have to eliminate honor-killing laws, they say, is to flood political parties with women who can win positions in the government and fight from the inside. "Nothing will change unless we get elected," says al-Souhail, who has emerged as a leading women's-rights campaigner. "It's going to be a big fight because no one in Iraq declares...
...Palms, the casino--which is on a different floor from the lobby and contains a food court--is for local regulars and the rooms are for tourist regulars. The Fertittas are building an even nicer hotel called Red Rock Station Resort and Casino, which they say will flood natural light into the casino. "It's way too competitive for that old-style casino of no bathrooms in restaurants and no TVs in the rooms," says Lorenzo, referring to layouts designed to send customers to the gaming areas. "Bring people here, give them a good time and make things convenient...
Bank robbing wasn't an exact science in 1933, and watching the bad guys figure it out as they go along makes for nonstop comedy. They flood their engines, shoot themselves, crash their cars and steal sacks of mail instead of money. Once, John Dillinger discovered that his wheelman had parallel parked the getaway car; he had to make an Austin Powers--style multipoint turn before he could peel out. The G-men weren't much better. The FBI was staffed by bumbling college kids and led by a raccoon-eyed, sexually ambiguous desk jockey named J. Edgar Hoover...