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...humid day and overcast," recalled Yakub Ali, a 40-year-old farmer on the tiny Bangladeshi island of Urirchar. "First came the dark and the menacing clouds. Soon the wind started whistling ominously. Then the heavy rains began to fall." At first Yakub thought with relief that the torrents might disperse the stifling heat, which can exceed 100 degrees F at this time of year. But the downpour quickly gained greater and still greater force. As the alarmed farmer walked out of his hut, he came upon his neighbors gathering in the night. There was frightened talk that Danger Signal...
...botanical gardens are lush, humid peaceful and beautiful. They're a great place to wait for someone. You can listen to the birds and to waterfalls, wander around realizing what you could do with your window garden if you only gave it a little time. People practice flutes, read poetry, taken maps on the stone benches...
...capped by feather headdresses. Colorful paint survives on some walls, and large swatches of fabric were found scattered among the burial sites. Terraced fields sculpted into the slope indicate sophisticated agricultural techniques. Perhaps most amazing, says Lennon, 3-ft.-high wood carvings on some building eaves have weathered the humid climate so well that their "assertively male" forms can still be seen. Marvels Anthropologist Jane Wheeler, co-leader of the study: "We have no idea why the carvings would be so perfectly preserved--but there they...
Though he was raised in New Jersey, Carl Lewis' inner thermostat always registers cool. Lewis loves to run and jump when it is hot. The hotter it is, the better he feels. On this humid Tuesday afternoon, as Lewis prepares for his final workout, the stands at the Santa Monica track are empty save for the security guards who only have eyes for stray spectators trying to pass through the chain-link fence. A female hurdler sprints along one side of the track. Lewis, his coach Tom Tellez, and Carl's friend Kirk Baptiste, a University of Houston...
...nightmare, behind a slick, heavy beat that is unmistakably contemporary and irresistibly funky. The lyrics make scary references to "100,000 disparus lost in the jails in South America" and "The smell of sex/ The smell of suicide." Undercover of the Night launches two sides of grizzly humor, humid sexuality and gut-level rock. The song titles-Too Much Blood...