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...stand on the sill, and the crowd shrieks and surges forward, a hundred arms straining for a supplicatory touch of her feet. Priyanka waves, and a tight knot of some 100 hands waves back. Rahul opens his window and watches with bemusement as showers of fragrant rose petals rain into his lap. It's a scene that has been repeated about 20 times in the past hour, and has at times threatened to bring the Congress Party election campaign to a complete halt as it crawls across the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, from Rahul's constituency of Amethi...
...million Amount allocated by Congress for the creation of an indoor rain forest in Coralville, Iowa...
Like Madagascar's rain forests, the country's National Forest Seed Bank (SNGF) in Antananarivo looks to be losing the battle against human encroachment. Engulfed by the capital's urban sprawl, the SNGF's small, scruffy patch of land has row upon row of seedlings, some of them species facing extinction in the wild. They seem too delicate to make it through the furious tropical storms common in the island's November-to-April rainy season. But SNGF director Guy Rakotondranony insists they will survive - they have to. The seedlings are "our hope for the future," he says, "our ecological...
...building remained closed for over an hour. And confused students mobbed the entrance to the Science Center, waiting anxiously in the rain to find out what prevented them from entering. Classes and sections that were supposed to take place during that time were cancelled. “I walked in five minutes before the section was about to begin and they told me that the building was closed,” said Julie B. Nantais, a TF for Science A-35, “Matter in the Universe.” She also said she waited after the evacuation...
Shuttles will also run from the Quad to wherever the event is held. McCambridge said the event’s planners are working to arrange shuttles that would transport students from Yard and River locations to Lavietes in the event of rain...