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...floating past her front door. "It's like living on the edge of a boat," she says. "The snakes swim under the bed." With August historically bringing the heaviest rain, the U.N. is warning of worse to come. As corpses rot and contaminate the floodwater, doctors expect the death toll to skyrocket, with waterborne diseases such as cholera (already contracted by 15,000 Nepalis) and dysentery (currently infecting 5,000 people a day in Bangladesh) turning into full-blown epidemics. "This is just the beginning," says Dr. Sudhir Kumar as he distributes medicine and water-purifying tablets to refugees outside...
...There seemed to be the need for places of prayer in Australia at that time," recalls Sister Bernadette, now the prioress, who has seen three sisters buried in the high-walled garden. Prayer is the air that they breathe. It's what brings them from their cells with the toll of the bell at 5:10 each morning, and what shapes their day, spent mainly in silence. There's morning prayer, private prayer, thanksgiving prayer, Vespers, and streams of rosaries, Little Hours and Stations of the Cross. The telephone brings more still. "We get so many people asking...
...packages altar breads for other parishes, while Sister Maria is preparing the monastery website to sell home-made rosary beads and stationery. (Three "extern" sisters, who live outside the enclosure, look after the church and do the monastery's shopping.) But the nuns are only ever a bell's toll away from prayer. It's what brought Sister Maria to the community as an 18-year-old in 1971. "I think it's very sad these days," she says. "People are distracted by all the noise and the bustle that's going on out there...
...work is involved with the comforting constancy of "hatch, match and despatch," as Bishop Wilmot likes to call it. Out on the Eyre Highway, isolation has taken its toll on the young station and roadhouse workers to whom Murray also ministers. "A lot of people think they're going out there to get away, but they take their problems with them," he says, "and a lot of them don't last terribly long. There's not much to do in places like Cocklebiddy, and a lot of people turn to alcohol." As with the stranded motorists he regularly finds...
Recognition of malaria's toll on the global economy is growing. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, estimates that countries hit hardest by the most severe form of malaria have annual economic growth rates 1.3 percentage points lower than those in which malaria is not a serious problem. Sachs points out that the economies of Greece, Portugal and Spain expanded rapidly only after malaria was eradicated in those countries in the 1950s. In other words, fighting malaria is good for business--as many companies with overseas operations have long understood. By the end of this year...