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...group you can name has a camp and kitchen in and around Bhuj. Even Tibetan refugees have pitched in. Some folks have gone overboard in their generosity. There is a surplus of used garments, sent by the truckload from all over India. Just outside Bhuj, I see an enormous pile of clothes, evidently offloaded from a passing truck. Back in Saurashtra, one NGO is still wondering what to do with a truckload of shaving kits sent by some well-meaning souls from Bombay...
...Bhuj housewife in her late thirties. The apartment block that housed her third-floor flat has collapsed. Although she and her family were unhurt, the sight of all their worldly possessions going to dust has left her unbalanced. Every day, from dawn till dusk, she stands guard over the pile of bricks and mortar, "to make sure thieves don't take our things." There is no way any of her "things" could have survived; the building is so thoroughly destroyed I doubt a spoon is intact. But Varsha won't?or can't?give up hope...
...olive-green blankets and a small bag of rice and lentils from a passing aid convoy. Her husband has come up with some onions. I offer to drive the family to a relief camp near town, where they would get food and shelter. Balia refuses, pointing to a small pile of stones that used to be her home. What if the government surveyor came around while they were in the camp? They would miss the chance to claim financial aid. I give her what I have on me, but a handful of biscuits and a few rupees won't last...
...tour made barely a blip on the cable-news radar, and when the Pardongate hearings took a break, there was Greenspan before the House for two mornings this week. And besides hogging the airwaves, the Fed chairman has of late rediscovered his gift for burying his soundbites in a pile of qualifiers - just when the Bush team could have used another headlining show of decipherable support...
...take care of the conflicts between free speech and contributory copyright infringement, which the Supreme Court has never addressed in a non-commercial environment. OpenNap isn't engaged in any commercial activity: it merely reports on the status of connected servers. If a newspaper reported that "A large pile of CD's ready for copying have been sighted on a park bench on 53rd St.," no one would dream of taking them to court--but if it wrote that "The file foo.txt can be found on a server at 140.247.83.245," this might constitute contributory infringement and must be policed...