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...days after cyclone Nargis tore through Burma, Mya Hen wandered the banks of the Irrawaddy River, searching for firewood. As he picked up kindling scraps, he barely glanced at a pair of bloated bodies splayed on the riverbank. Death is so pervasive in the delta now, what are two more corpses? Like hundreds of villages across the delta, almost all the bamboo shacks in Mya Hen's hamlet of Phya Chaung, near the town of Bogalay, collapsed under the force of a massive tidal surge triggered by the storm. No one is sure of the death toll, but if other...
...combing the riverbank for things to salvage. Rumor has it that someone in a nearby village found a piece of gold lost in the storm. But Than Maw isn't saying whether she has found anything herself. Nine people, she has heard, were killed in a village across the river by hungry looters...
...Estimated drop in king-salmon yields from California's Sacramento River from...
...seriously. For centuries, the vagaries of weather have been scrutinized by astrologers who divine a relationship between celestial irregularities and earthly mayhem. So when a tropical cyclone tore across the country on May 2 and 3, killing tens of thousands and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless in the Irrawaddy River delta and the city of Rangoon, Burmese couldn't help noting the curious timing: exactly a week later, on May 10, the thuggish ruling junta was set to hold a constitutional referendum, a step toward what the military has called a discipline-flourishing democracy. Then the heavens opened...
When my 5-year-old, an Ardent Hillary supporter, saw your Obama/Clinton cover, she combined the names Barack and Hillary and got Barackary. She then noted that Barackary sounds like broccoli and offered, "We don't like it, but it is good for us." Jason Petri, GREEN RIVER...