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Cyberchondriac n.--Someone who needlessly fears the worst after using the Internet to self-diagnose an ailment...
...Australia, the wake-up call can no longer be ignored. Since 2002, the world's dryest inhabited continent has been in the grip of the worst drought in its recorded history. In Melbourne, you're no longer allowed to fill your swimming pool, and in bone-dry Brisbane, residents aren't allowed any external water use without a permit. But the real pain has been borne in the Murray-Darling River Basin in southern Australia, the heart of the country's $30 billion agricultural economy. Even in good times, Murray-Darling receives as little as 10 in. of rain...
...homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims, and its relations with India have since been bedeviled by a festering dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state. Almost as many Muslims have remained in India as live in Pakistan, but Pakistan has had the worst of four wars between the neighbors. (See pictures of Mumbai sifting through the rubble...
...foreign policy. But he will find few takers in India for continuing a peace process with a government that does not appear to control significant elements of its own military. India will weary of being exhorted to talk to a government that is at best ineffective and at worst duplicitous about the real threats emanating from its territory and institutions...
...imagining the attack on Leopold Café is the worst. I tried not to eat there this summer. The food was terrible: five kinds of sizzlers and “chilly chicken.” But Leopold’s was a convenient meeting place, full of dreadlocked backpackers and girls tan from the beaches of Goa. I kept finding myself at a table in the corner...