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...Nepal's woes are tragically intertwined. For generations, Nepalis have traveled abroad to escape poverty. But the stream has become a torrent thanks to the bloody insurgency, which has claimed 10,000 victims in the countryside since 1996. Some 15,000 Nepalese are working in Iraq, several hundred thousand more in Asia and the West, and 6 million in neighboring India. Sudarshan Khadka, 23, was planning to find a job in the Middle East until he saw the video on television last week and recognized his 19-year-old brother Ramesh lying face down in an Iraqi ditch. "The future...
...seemed to say, You can do that too? Phelps was impeccably smooth, as were most of the Americans, who won most of the events. The BALCO scandal was supposed to have crippled the U.S. goal of 100 medals, which was met late Saturday night. The medals came in a torrent, and the young legs of Justin Gatlin and Shawn Crawford were almost as dominant as--although suspiciously a step slower than--those of their possibly drug-tainted predecessors. (It was their coach, Trevor Graham, who sent in a syringe of human growth hormone to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, saying...
...million were forced to shelter in 1,500 relief camps. In Bihar, 520 people were killed, half a million houses were destroyed and 5.2 million hectares flooded. Farmer Kapelshwar Bhagat, 30, saw 25 neighbors drown in a day, including his 62-year-old uncle who slipped into the torrent after trying to save his own son. Now, Bhagat's one-year-old daughter has cholera and he has only enough wheat to last his family two months. "We're told the floods won't drain from our fields until winter," he says...
...headquarters in Baghdad and the death of Special Representative Sergio Vieira de Mello as well as the bombing of the Mount Lebanon Hotel in March. In the hotel attack, the cameraman is positioned too close to the blast and the camera crackles with digital static as the torrent of yellow and orange flame rolls toward...
...Bill Clinton is back, and you will be seeing a lot of him over the next few weeks, and if the tears and talk and emotions and anger and empathy--the constant torrent of the man--seem all too familiar, there are some new twists as well. He has been through intense family therapy--a year of it after the Lewinsky scandal--and religious counseling. After moving through life like a shark, always forward, always thinking about tomorrow, in the words of his overutilized campaign song, he has spent an awful lot of time thinking about yesterday, in therapy...