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...October 1999, some 20,000 people died in a cyclone in Orissa. Entire villages were swept away, 2 million houses were destroyed, thousands of cattle were drowned. Tired and desperate survivors remained stranded on roofs and in trees for days. Politicians demanded rescue and relief, but in village after village journalists arrived first?and were greeted with outrage. As they pursued their stories, they were forced to hand out their personal supplies of biscuits and bottled water. One such journalist, Ruben Banerjee, the local correspondent of India Today magazine, has published The Orissa Tragedy (Books Today; 202 pages), an account...
...This first part, which Heuet calls "Combray," begins with the narrator being swept back to boyhood by the scent of a cookie. From there it reads episodically, dreamily recounting summertime events during a now-lost Edwardian age that includes bed-ridden aunts, earthy servants, looking at magic lantern shows, and fussing over the intricacies of propriety and social rank. Most crudely, it's about how the boy learns to appreciate beauty, and the way art can capture...
...Travers spent most of her youth in Cannes during the 1920s when women took to masculine coifs, slinky dresses and cigarettes to help them shake off "the shackles of the previous century." Swept up in fast-paced Riviera life, Travers gleefully partook in a whirlwind of booze, globetrotting and recreational sex, scandalizing her parents who accused her of becoming une fille facile...
Folks visiting Queen Charlotte Islands, south of Alaska, shouldn't be surprised if they see Micron PC computer monitors bobbing in the surf. In January 2000, a ship carrying the monitors from Thailand to Seattle ran into a typhoon, which swept about 2,000 units overboard. They're now showing up on Pacific Coast beaches, along with flotsam from other recent spills: an estimated 10,000 Tweety & Sylvester bath mats, 34,000 hockey gloves and 18,000 Nike Cross Trainers. Seattle oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who tracks cargo spills with a worldwide network of beachcombers, says, "The North Atlantic and North...
...Harvard-Cornell rivalry begin in earnest in 1997, when both teams earned berths in the ECAC tournament, which brings together the top four eastern member schools that fail to make NCAAs. Harvard swept Cornell during the regular season, but the Big Red came back to take two of three games from the Crimson in the postseason to take the ECAC championship...