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...engineers' punishment posting is one of the reasons for my presence in Arunachal Pradesh, a northeastern Indian state. I had joined an expedition to raft down the Kameng, a savage, white-water river, which roars out of the high Himalayas through jungle canyons that are home to wild elephants, hundreds of orchids and three different species of leopards and tarantulas. The engineers' mission is to divert a tributary of the Kameng and harness its hydroelectricity, and this would be one of the last chances to raft the river before it loses its quicksilver fury. (See pictures of the turning points...
...Nishis gather as we prepare our vessels at the water's edge. "Is it elephant skin?" asks a boy, poking our raft. A Nishi unsheathes his sword from a monkey-fur scabbard, and waves it over his head, dancing. In broken Hindi, he calls out: "Hey! Next time, you bring me a foreign woman!" The Nishi has been impressed by the posters of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera in a tea shop up on the road, and believes they may be worth a few wild cattle in trade. As we head into the current, a few younger Nishi gather...
...roar of rapids around a bend, and the jade-green Kameng turns into a washing machine tossing us around like dirty socks. Giant boulders rush toward us; the raft bucks and rears in the waves, spinning dangerously on the edge of a giant hole that appears in the water. "Left Forward! Hard!" shouts Eamon Maddocks, our guide, as a wave crashes over the bow, submerging us in a sparkling effervescence, an icy electricity. From far away, I discern Eamon's voice, yelling "Paddle! Paddle!" And I do, furiously...
People stood on higher ground, watching their houses collapse under the force of a wall of water that rushed through their crowded neighborhood in Jakarta. Five days later, as the death toll approached 100 after the bursting of a 75-year-old dam on March 27, rescue workers were still searching through the mud where dozens more bodies are feared to have been buried. And the blame game over who or what was responsible for the collapse continued...
...final pair in Medford.“The three freshman did a great job,” Watson said. “It was a new experience for them and they did very well in translating what they saw on the chalkboard into actions out on the water.”OWEN, MOSBACHER, AND KNAPP TROPHIESHarvard’s efforts in New York over the weekend resulted in a tenth place team showing out of twenty teams in the Owen, Mosbacher, and Knapp Trophies.Sophomore skipper Teddy Himler was paired with sophomore crew Quincy Bock and took third...