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...from Captain Singh's cockpit. The women of Cherrapunji are small and muscular, their cheeks lined with the same parched wrinkles as the wild land of their birth. Their sinewy bodies tell the story of how, six months of the year, they lift empty oilcans on their backs and trek a kilometer to a stream to fetch water. "Still, there isn't enough," says widow Dorjon Nongrun. Once called the "Scotland of the East" by the British, Cherrapunji lost its trees and topsoil after decades of slash-and-burn agriculture. Today, fruit and vegetables are trucked in from hours away...
Students will throng across the river to see Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., accept his party’s presidential nomination next week, and others will trek to New York next month to see President Bush lead his party at the Republican National Convention—but another presidential candidate will visit Harvard’s campus today: Ralph Nader, the left-leaning candidate without a party...
Died. Larry Capune, 61, long-distance paddleboarder who logged 16,063 miles along America's coastlines during eight epic solo trips from 1964 to 1987; of cancer; in Newport Beach, Calif. The Hollywood-born lifeguard's longest journey was a 4,255-mile trek from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the years, he was bitten by a sea turtle, a bluefish and a dog; hit by a tanker once and by freighters twice; and smacked in the head by a Coke bottle thrown by a pier owner who said Capune was scaring the fish...
...Outside of Broadway, these performers aren't household names. Menzel, the winner, played a bridesmaid in the indie movie "Kissing Jessica Stein." Murphy has some minor currency for Trekkies as Captain Picard's beloved Ba'ku babe in "Star Trek: Insurrection" or, for TV cultists, as Stanley Tucci's scheming wife on the first season of "Murder One." Pinkins' only non-Tony nomination was for Best Supporting Actress in a soap opera ("All My Children" in the early 90s). Chenoweth and D'Abruzzo have been seen, fleetingly, on "Sesame Street" - the first as Ms. Noodle, the second as a puppeteer...
Giving up sex is proving hard for its fans. Since Carrie & Co. signed off this winter, New York's Sex and the City tour has tripled in popularity. About 1,000 visitors a week trek to the real-life spots where the show's stars had steamy soirees or cooed over cupcakes. The Sex tour has inspired plans for similar tours in Miami and Boston, linked to CSI Miami and Boston Public, and visitors to Tokyo can now follow Bill Murray's footsteps in Lost in Translation. Here's some of what's out there...