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Lifting off in his Russian MI-17 transporter helicopter from Patna in northeast India and banking low and east along the Ganges River delta, Captain S.K. Singh gets the clearest possible view of South Asia's water crisis. In front of him is a split-screen of disaster. On the left are catastrophic floods, the worst in a century according to relief workers, which have killed 1,500 people, disrupted the lives of 63 million and released a disease epidemic. A full two-thirds of Bangladesh is now under water, while 1.2 million homes have been washed away region-wide...
...Downstream in Bangladesh, a Wiscon-sin-size delta of 250 rivers, half of the capital, Dhaka, is under water. Thirty million people are in distress nationwide; nearly 500 people and 55,000 cows have died from drowning, disease or bites from snakes crowding the dry land. In her hut in eastern Dhaka, 20-year-old garment factory worker Rahela Khatoon chained her two-year-old son to a bamboo pole to save him from a black tide of sewage, pollution and the occasional swollen body floating past her front door. "It's like living on the edge of a boat...
...ROWING Cameron Baerg, Saskatoon, Sask. Jonathan Beare, Toronto Iain Brambell, Brentwood Bay, B.C. David Calder, Victoria, B.C. Karen Clark, Delta, B.C. Jacqui Cook, Burlington, Ont. Anna-Marie DeZwager, Victoria, B.C. Scott Frandsen, Kelowna, B.C. Kyle Hamilton, Richmond, B.C. Gavin Hassett, Victoria, B.C. Tom Herschmiller, Comox, B.C. Andrew Hoskins, Edmonton Christopher Jarvis, St. Catharines, Ont. Mara Jones, Aurora, Ont. Sabrina Kolker, West Vancouver Adam Kreek, London, Ont. Kevin Light, Sidney, B.C. Jonathan Mandick, Edmonton, Alta. Darcy Marquardt, Richmond, B.C. Roslyn McLeod, Burlington, Ont. Fiona Milne, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Andreanne Morin, Montreal Sarah Pape, Toronto Jeffrey Powell, Winnipeg, Man. Brian...
...SOFTBALL Lauren Bay, Trail, B.C. Alison Bradley, Pinkerton, Ont. Erin Cumpstone, Saskatoon, Sask. Cindy Eadie, Brantford, Ont. Kaila Holtz, North Vancouver Jackie Lance, Delta, B.C. Sheena Lawrick, Calgary Angela Lichty, Guelph, Ont. Andrea Nyhus, White Rock, B.C. Kristy Odamura, Richmond, B.C. Alexandra Olson, Valemount, B.C. Kim Sarrazin, St-Eustache , Que. Rachel Schill, Kitchener, Ont. AuburnlSigurdson, Surrey, B.C. Erin White, Richmond...
...years battled drug and alcohol abuse; of undetermined causes, pending an autopsy; found in his New York City apartment. Best known for his headline-making brushes with the law, the sometime actor and stand-up comedian appeared in a handful of television shows and films, including Delta Force...