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...bamboo pole to save him from a black tide of sewage, pollution and the occasional swollen body floating past her front door. "It's like living on the edge of a boat," she says. "The snakes swim under the bed." With August historically bringing the heaviest rain, the U.N. is warning of worse to come. As corpses rot and contaminate the floodwater, doctors expect the death toll to skyrocket, with waterborne diseases such as cholera (already contracted by 15,000 Nepalis) and dysentery (currently infecting 5,000 people a day in Bangladesh) turning into full-blown epidemics. "This is just...
Faced with challenges before, Bush has met them with his characteristic mix of action and resolve, and he has been following a similar pattern. At the very moment that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under the heaviest fire from lawmakers (and from many in the Bush Administration) for mishandling the prison fiasco, Bush paid a rare visit to the morning meeting of his senior White House staff members and told them to button up. "If I hear any speculation coming out of the White House about the Secretary," he said, "you'll answer to me." Early last week Bush marched...
...trails of condensation left by airliners. A team headed by Patrick Minnis, a senior scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., analyzed 25 years of cirrus-cloud counts and 20 years of temperature records and found that cloud cover increased most where jet traffic was heaviest, including flight corridors over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...
...kilograms Weight of a 600,000-word book entitled GOAT, an homage to Muhammad Ali, which is touted as the heaviest book ever published...
...He’s got a lot of power,” Walsh would go on to say afterwards. The sophomore currently stands a robust 6’4, 220, good for fourth-tallest on the team and second-heaviest. “If he could get a hold of one and hit it out of the shortest part of the park?...