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Lifting off in his Russian MI-17 transporter helicopter from Patna in northeast India and banking low and east along the Ganges River delta, Captain S.K. Singh gets the clearest possible view of South Asia's water crisis. In front of him is a split-screen of disaster. On the left are catastrophic floods, the worst in a century according to relief workers, which have killed 1,500 people, disrupted the lives of 63 million and released a disease epidemic. A full two-thirds of Bangladesh is now under water, while 1.2 million homes have been washed away region-wide...
What hasn't: Amtrak doesn't screen passenger baggage for weapons. about 25% of Amtrak riders never show identification before they board the train. --By Nadia Mustafa
Even in downtime, the spirit of Clinton still pervades the convention. One of the most frequent time-fillers between on-stage events features an image of Clinton displayed with the following quote on screen, along with a recording of him reciting it:“Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace...
...midnight-to-0200 watch, Radon, anchored off Gabba, monitors instruments and prepares a chart for the next journey. The Torres Strait is a difficult stretch to chart, sometimes requiring 60 wavepoints (or map references) on a single passage. On a radar screen, what appears to be a barge is on course to cross 900 m in front of the ACV's bow. That's too close for comfort, and a warning light begins to flash. On VHF channel 16, after several attempts, Radon makes contact with the chatty master of Barge Express VIII, who alters course. "Roger that! Roger that...
...essence of things was the whole aim of Antony Gormley's $A500,000 Inside Australia sculpture project. For the 2003 Perth International Arts Festival, the Englishman digitally scanned each able-bodied citizen of Menzies (about 130 of them at the time), tweaked their dimensions on a computer screen, and cast their skeletal cores in a mix of stainless steel and trace elements found at the lake. What we get is a town reduced to its bare bones - "boobs" and all. (By drastically slenderizing his subjects, Gormley makes these and other intimate appendages protrude like sausages on sticks.) But if outsiders...