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...falls. Or there's a "Nautical Adventure" tour on motorized rafts helmed by boatmen whose main goal seems to be drenching their passengers. Adrenaline junkies are floated nearly to the precipice on rafts that are pulled to the safety of a tiny outcrop at the last moment. Naturally, rain gear and steady nerves are essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Traveler | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

Just days removed from a 16-6 drubbing by then-No. 9 Cornell, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team was soundly defeated once again, this time by a score of 12-3 at the hands of No. 19 Brown on a rain-soaked Jordan Field...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lacrosse Destroyed by Brown | 4/13/2005 | See Source »

...nearly seven years the starving, drought-stricken people of western Sudan yearned for rain. But when wet weather finally arrived this month, it proved to be yet another kind of curse. A heavy deluge produced flash floods that raced through long-dry riverbeds and rushed over brick-hard earth, turning airstrips into quagmires and rendering roads and rail lines impassable. The torrent washed out a vital railroad bridge that linked the region to Port Sudan, cutting off hundreds of thousands of famine victims from emergency food supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Famine: A Deluge of New Trouble | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...rain pours white against the Hiroshima evening. Colors fade on petals just past full bloom, Spring is passing. But we stand firm, our dreams of prosperity unfading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Boy Saw: A Fire In the Sky | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...photographs of the suffering, their burned backs looking like topographical maps. And shadows of vaporized people that remained on streets after the people disappeared. And a wall streaked with "black rain," the large radioactive rain drops that fell shortly after the explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Boy Saw: A Fire In the Sky | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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