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...been unusually fierce. Four monsoon depressions, double the usual number, have caused the worst flooding in memory in parts of Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Nearly 800 have died and upwards of 20 million have been forced from their homes; aid agencies are warning that the death toll could rise because the scale of the disaster has overwhelmed efforts to reach stranded villagers with food, drinking water and medicine to combat outbreaks of malaria and dengue fever. Waters were receding in some areas, but forecasters say more downpours...
...India's Meteorological Department says it can't link the floods directly to global warming but the number of "extreme rainfall events" is definitely on the rise - a fact confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which reported that 2007 has been marked by extreme weather not just in South Asia but worldwide. Examples: South Africa and parts of South America have experienced freak snowfalls in recent months, while heat waves across Russia and Southern Europe set new high-temperature records in some cities; the U.K. and Germany were hit by spells of torrential rain exceeding any in more than...
...savvy trendsetters who spent 22 million hours on the site last month. But some devotees are so upset by increasing commercialization that a group called the Second Life Liberation Army last year gunned down virtual shoppers at American Apparel. So-called griefing, or on-site harassment, is on the rise. Says Gartner research chief Steve Prentice: "Second Life is moving into a phase of disillusionment...
...their lives for their country. Just as John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush benefited from their experience as young officers in World War II--and from the high regard in which their experience was held--so the Iraq vets will have every chance to rise to the top of American public life...
...move that mirrors Scalise’s eventual rise to athletic director, Anderson jumps from the lacrosse sideline to the athletic department's administrative side...