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...places is the crisis more apparent than South Asia. Here, every June to September, bulging rain clouds drawn in by the back draft of India's scorching summer roll in off the Bay of Bengal, prick themselves on the Himalayas and disgorge the monsoon. This year, the rains have been unusually concentrated. In Nepal, a nation that has felled 60% of its forests in just 40 years, the waters gushed from the mountains in flash floods. By the end of last week, 255 km of roads, 76 bridges, 61 schools and 220 people had been swept away. The water then...
...Allie and Diana?s duet gave Mary a brainstorm: let?s take the kids to see ?42nd Street? (a road-show company of which Beth had taken the kids to in San Francisco) on 42nd Street. We had less than an hour to don our rain-gear, take a subway uptown and hope tickets were still available for the 8 o?clock performance. The deluge outside only heightened our giddy mood; some of us sang ?Singin? in the Rain? while others whirled, Gene Kelly-style, around lampposts. We arrived at the Ford Theatre and snapped up three pairs of seats...
...done has always been with lures or not-live bait. After shoveling through four feet of partially decomposed fruit, hay and cow shit I faintly glimpse ugly translucent wiggles—not the cute pink type I used to step on in my driveway after a rain or the kind I opened up in freshman bio—but worms who seem like they’d be more comfortable eating my food from within my intestines than providing it for me at the end of a line. (In fairness I guess I’d make the same choice...
...back against a huge fallen eucalypt, shaking his head. "I feel no need to go in," he says, black beanie pulled down low against the chill. "I'll just sit here and listen to the scrub." Wind roars in the canopy above and the sullen Tasmanian winter sky threatens rain or worse. In layers of thermals, waterproof trousers and parkas, gloves sodden from slippery branches, Shaw and other members of the local Aboriginal community have scrambled for an hour through steep rainforest to reach this spot in the island's wild southwest. Here at the base of a rough limestone...
...that,” he said, “you better hope it doesn’t rain.” I suddenly realized that my suspicions regarding this late night mission had been completely wrong. I had suspected that I was at the airport to meet the running mate’s plane. Though the campaign had kept the secret of the announcement from everyone including the advance team, we were all suspicious and I could think of no other reason to wait around the airport all night. But suddenly it was real. I couldn’t believe...