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...Ellie Weihenmayer's phone rang with updates of her husband's ascent up the white monster called Everest. But the reports did little to ease her nerves. It had been almost two weeks since she last heard his voice, and she'd spent too many sleepless nights chasing away fears of avalanches and infinitely deep crevasses. Then, at 10 p.m. on May 24, the news came: Erik had reached the summit. "My friends and I broke out in celebration," recalls Ellie...
...cope with wet weather. When a two year long drought broke earlier this year, Kenyans thanked God. At long last they could have regular power and water again. They were less pleased when whole suburbs of Nairobi lost their phone lines for a month. Thus affected, I rang Telkom Kenya, the state-owned monopoly, from my one working line every few days to get updates on the progress of their repair work on my main line. After a couple of weeks, the manager in charge of my suburb took to blaming the weather for the slow progress...
Thousands of kilometers away in Austin, Texas, Viswanathan's older son Ravi was just stirring. When the phone rang, the 28-year-old assumed his parents were calling at such an unearthly hour to talk about an upcoming family holiday. "When my mother broke the news," he says, "all I could think of was the great physical distance between us." How could he juggle his work commitments at Motorola, where he is a software analyst, and his desire to see his father...
...Scientists, water professionals, environmental campaigners and others have warned for decades that a water crisis was building - alarm bells that rang on many a deaf governmental ear. The crisis is partly due to natural cycles of extreme weather and the expansion and contraction of arid regions. But human activity has been playing an ever-greater role in creating water scarcity and "water stress" - defined as the indication that there is not enough good-quality water to meet human and environmental needs. Like so much of the earth's bounty, water is unevenly distributed. While people in some parts...
...kind of good morning that Laura Bush is used to. At 5:40 a.m. last Wednesday, the phone rang in the presidential bedroom. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was on the line. Chinese diplomats had finally accepted a U.S. letter of regret about the South China Sea air crash that had locked the two countries in 11 days of tense confrontation. The standoff was safely over, the American air crew heading home. The President, still in bed, rolled over to his wife and dryly delivered the news. "Looks like the matter is going to be resolved," he said, according...