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...Human beings made the collective decision to stop living in trees, oh, about 5 million years ago. But the northern Indian village of Renudih has been forced back in time. There, residents have taken to dwelling permanently in makeshift tree houses because rampaging herds of angry elephants have flattened all the human settlements on the ground. "Who lives in trees? Human beings or monkeys?" asks despondent villager Ramesh Dehri, a 35-year-old aboriginal hill-tribe leader. "In this tribal land, we have been reduced to monkeys...
...adventurous group of first-year downhill skiers built a makeshift ramp on one side of the Widener steps and impressed onlookers with their jumps. On the other side of the library, students sledded down the stairs on dining hall trays...
...adventurous group of first-year downhill skiers built a makeshift ramp on one side of the Widener steps and impressed onlookers with their jumps. On the other side of the library, students sledded down the stairs on dining hall trays...
...public increasingly distrustful of government propaganda and fearful that their rulers no longer have their best interests in mind. Intensifying this unease is a vigorous rumor mill that turns careless speculation into doomsday fact. "We don't know whom to trust anymore," says one peasant manning a makeshift roadblock he and his fellow villagers have set up to keep outsiders from entering his hometown. "We have to protect ourselves...
...police. The uprisings had begun on the night of May 3, when word leaked out that six potentially SARS-infected patients from out of town would be quarantined in the party building. Furious that they hadn't been consulted about a decision to isolate possibly contagious patients in a makeshift ward just meters from the local school, dozens of villagers attacked the party headquarters, trashing three rooms and pelting the bureaucrats inside with stones. "I was very scared," says one trapped official. "I really didn't know what else they would do." The riots escalated nightly until May 5, when...