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...banks of the Pyapon River, survivors of Cyclone Nargis now lash together lengths of bamboo to make primitive shelters for families the junta is too incompetent or uncaring to help. Against the odds, without any domestic or foreign aid, new homes are rising on the sodden and shredded remains...
...starts like this: six students sitting around an oval table, eyes on the projector screen, faces barely visible in the sodden light of an early March morning. Their dress is standard-issue—black wind pants, olive green windbreakers, and gray T-shirts. They are attentive. They are quiet. They are getting a lesson in warfare from the Spartan King Leonidas...
...Suddenly, our editor Denise started screaming reporters’ names and the newsroom plunged into frenetic activity. Vinicius, a reporter, stopped by my desk. “Want to come?” he asked. Five minutes later we were in a car, weaving furiously through heavy traffic on sodden streets as Laura, another reporter, bellowed obscenities of incredulity at the radio reports...
Marooned in the U.K.'s rain-sodden Midlands and best known for a local soccer team, Manchester has struggled to shake off its abiding image of "dark Satanic mills" first noted by the poet William Blake in his epic Jerusalem back in 1820. It's never quite been the place for picturesque holidays, much less arts festivals - until...
After less than a semester, the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub has found its place in the Harvard social calendar: Need a place to start off a sodden evening of drinking? Your rowdy, cheap-drink paradise is just a 10-minute line and several days (until the weekend) away...