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...window at the devastation below. Even by the standards of his perennially destitute country, the punishment this time seemed inordinately cruel. As much as three-quarters of Bangladesh -- a country the size of Wisconsin crowded with 110 million people -- lay under water after it and neighboring India, Bhutan and Nepal were pelted by what may have been the heaviest monsoon rains in 70 years. An estimated 30 million Bangladeshis were left homeless. Many hundreds perished, though the full extent of the casualties will not be known until the waters of the Brahmaputra River recede enough for rescue teams to reach...
...worse may be in store. The problem begins beyond Bangladesh in a 600,000-sq.-mi. watershed of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna river systems. All flow through Bangladesh and empty into the Bay of Bengal. The watershed contains the southern slopes of the Himalayas in northern India, Nepal and Bhutan, where the hillsides have been ravaged by deforestation. With the denuded soil no longer able to absorb monsoon rains, the savage runoff increases year by year in speed and volume, bringing with it ever larger loads of silt that end up on the river bottoms of Bangladesh...
Ironically, the model for this fresh venture is a quarter century old. Just like the original Peace Corps, founded by John F. Kennedy '40 in 1962, City Year will ask young people to take on the challenge of aiding needy communities. City Year participants are not, however, going to Nepal or rural villages in Kenya. These 17 to 20 year-olds from Greater Boston will be serving their own backyard, assisting local social service agencies and non-profit groups in places like Roxbury, Dorchester and Cambridge...
Broadcast live by Nippon Television Network from the summit, the alpine telecast captured another historic moment: the first time that two teams had scaled the mountain simultaneously from the Nepal and Tibet sides...
Call it one small step for man, one giant leap for Japanese television. Nine weeks after the first of two teams of climbers from Japan, China and Nepal set out from opposite sides of Mount Everest, six determined mountaineers rendezvoused on the world's tallest peak. What made the occasion particularly memorable was that television viewers were able to share in the celebration, courtesy of three intrepid Japanese cameramen who also made the 29,028-ft. climb...