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...began Feb. 3 have caused floods in the Mexican state of Michoacán, on the central Pacific coast, and in Mexico City, the nation's capital. At least 40 people have died; a dozen others were missing after a mudslide covered a busy highway. More than 3,000 homes near the capital were flooded, leaving some residents homeless as further rainstorms threatened to approach the area...
...plot of the book and the film is also weirdly similar to that of this weekend's other new film, Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, which has a stranger visiting a rainswept island near Boston after someone's mysterious disappearance and trying to unravel a conspiracy that may threaten his life. That picture - with a gallery of unreliable characters weaving a web of lies around the baffled hero, who must discover the perpetrator by searching for clues in hidden notes - has been widely compared to Hitchcock and film noir; but it might also be Scorsese's tribute to Polanski...
Merely days after the devastating Haitian earthquake of Jan. 12, Stephanie Rosborough ’96 and Hilarie Cranmer arrived via helicopter to set up a field hospital near Port-au-Prince at an orphanage and school run by the organization Love A Child...
...Defense Minister came to their booth this week and tried out the Eurofighter Typhoon flight simulator. He sat in a replica of the cockpit, watching a head-up display projected onto a screen in front of him as a simulated landscape - in this case, the west of England, near Manchester - passed underneath. Wing Commander Anthony (Foxy) Gregory of the Royal Air Force was there to answer technical questions, and will head to Bangalore to work with Indian test pilots. "We see the Indian air force becoming a strategic partner in the region," Gregory says...
Hundreds of children flock at the site of a stranger in the Kutu Palong makeshift camp in southeastern Bangladesh, near the border with Burma. Some are wearing salvaged clothes; mostly, they are naked. "Hello, how are you?" they shout, repeating the one phrase they have picked up from the few aid workers that have gained permission from the Bangladesh authorities to enter the unregistered camp...