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...Jesus awoke and asked them, 'Are y'all doubters out there pouting for real/ What's the deal?/ Where's all that faith you always talking about when I'm not around?/ How you gone' doubt right now?/ Check this out/ ... I'm talking to the waters and clouds/ Rain and wind, y'all both calm down...
...cancer and, most memorably, on drugs. "The irony is that all of these wars on abstractions have pretty much been failures," says Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard. "It's a bit of a conceptual mismatch. If your roof leaks, you don't have a war against rain." Often those waging the wars request a name change. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey, who fought in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, called the war metaphor "inadequate" for drugs in 1996: "This isn't going to be won by anybody's army." Former State Department official David Long told the New York...
...then on July 26, the skies burst. A meter of monsoon rain fell on Saki Naka in 24 hours, causing the 30-m cliff behind the Afzad family home to collapse. Around 25 shacks perched on top of the precipice fell onto another 25 nestled below, according to Bombay Joint Chief Fire Officer G.S. Sawant. The landslide killed 150 people, including Afzad's parents, three teenage sisters and his 12-year-old brother...
...because the international airport was flooded. Streets stayed blocked for days by vehicles whose drivers had abandoned them. If Bombay really is the business capital of the next big economy, asked the city's stranded businessmen, how come the entire infrastructure crumbled in just over a day of heavy rain? What was wrong with the drains? Where were the police, the ambulances, the army? Ramila Sreedhar, a window-blind maker from Madras, fretted about how the disaster would look to foreign investors. "They'll go back home and say, 'Forget India. They're 50 years behind...
...pact approach is not helpful," he says. "The entire world community needs to come together on this issue. The pattern of climate instability we're seeing now is what we predicted for the end of this decade. Look at what's happening in Bombay." According to environmentalists, the torrential rain in the city of 16 million is an augur that the world must get its act?or acts?together or face the perils of an increasingly unstable environment...