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...wettest of the Lost wannabes is NBC's Surface (Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), in which a new species of giant (mostly unseen) creatures appears in the world's seas. Idealistic oceanographer Laura Daughtery (Lake Bell) bumps into a mystery beast during a deep-sea bathysphere dive. A boy (Carter Jenkins) finds a translucent egg on the beach and puts it in his aquarium, not knowing it's sea-monster caviar. And there's a government plot to hide the truth, led by a scientist (Rade Sherbedgia) with a Dracula accent. (Because, of course, real Americans don't do cover...
Cameron is a director who virtually lives underwater, from his debut feature Piranha Part Two to his recent marine documentaries. Oh, and Titanic. Cameron's ultimate sea adventure, surely his wettest, is this aquanautic journey leading to the discovery of a new species. There's a whirling wonder in this confrontation. And a sobering message: sometimes the monster on the ocean floor is man. --By Richard Corliss
...topsoil after decades of slash-and-burn agriculture. Today, fruit and vegetables are trucked in from hours away. It's a scene repeated across many arid parts of India and would be unremarkable but for one fact: with an average 12 m of rain a year, Cherrapunji is the wettest inhabited place on earth...
...something of an edge, the result of an unusually hot European summer: their Michelin tires are better for dry weather than Schumacher's Bridgestones. So it was poetic justice when, in the penultimate race of the season, Schumi had some freakish weather on his side for a change. The wettest Indiana September in years brought rain to the U.S. Grand Prix: and as any F1 fan will tell you, nobody drives in the rain as well as the Ferrari ace. Schumacher started seventh on the grid, but while everyone else was in and out of the pits to change...
...reality is that it takes a major flooding event to galvanize societies and governments to take action," says Michael Hulme, director of the Tyndall Institute at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia. "This certainly happened in Britain two years ago [when the country endured widespread flooding during the wettest autumn on record], and I suspect it will now happen in Central Europe." The residents of Prague have certainly learned their lesson. A barrier similar to the mobile floodwall that was assembled around the Old Town's perimeter had also been planned for the Malá Strana district, which...