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...single writer, photographer, or designer could confess to a pure love of this place, this institution, this almost incomprehensible club. Call it what you will, the Crimson is swollen with passionate people who both love and hate the time they spend here...
...overwhelmed by the hungry crowd and retreated with armed guards to Army trucks outside. When a 4th Infantry Division helicopter arrived, all but three of the evacuees had to be wheeled onto the Chinook, the elderly panting like animals suffering heatstroke, their mouths sagging and their tongues heavy and swollen. One paraplegic woman looked as if she had been broiled, her motionless legs beet red on the front and ghostly white on her calves. The evacuees were frightened, of both their plight and the booming helicopter that was there to save them. As the chopper pulled away, mothers down below...
...uneasy stalemate. Humanitarian access has improved and fewer people are dying, but in the vast swaths of land outside the control of either the government or the rebels, lawlessness prevails. Attacks on trucks and aid convoys make roads too dangerous to travel, and the scared and hungry arrive at swollen relief camps daily. Even then, their safety is not ensured. At Kalma, Darfur's largest camp, refugees complain of government harassment, and women who venture beyond in search of firewood and fodder are often raped...
...fastest-growing population centers in the country, Las Vegas has a powerful thirst. Every month 5,000 to 7,000 newcomers arrive to retire or find jobs, meaning the already swollen population could double in 20 to 30 years. Though water-conservation measures have reduced the city's annual consumption since 2002, they cannot contain such explosive growth. So Las Vegas has gone looking for its water farther from home...
...www.nk-news.net), a database of past articles from the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA). The site boasts "over 50 megabytes of hard-core Stalinist propaganda," plus the KCNA Random Insult Generator. Hit a button labeled INSULT ME AGAIN and it unleashes vitriolic phrases like "You extra-large aggressor!" and "You swollen-headed warmonger...