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...Waves by Rabindranath Tagore was published exactly 100 years ago, but the great Bengali poet's subject is timeless. His April of cyclones, "blind forms of being," was this year's last day of April for Bangladesh. Twenty- foot walls of water. Demonic winds of crushing force. The horror left behind: 125,000 lives lost, and still counting. A world used to human-scale catastrophes -- plane crashes, say, that kill a few hundred at most -- cannot absorb the biblical dooms that visit Bangladesh. Straddling the conjoined mouths of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, two of the Indian subcontinent's mightiest rivers...
...imagine the pain and horror of Daniel Scott's last hours. The seven-month-old baby was found by police lying in a pool of blood next to his crib in a Bronx tenement. His mother, off on a six-day crack binge, had left him in the care of his father, who abandoned the child in his unlocked apartment without so much as a bottle of water. Emaciated, filthy, desperate, the infant had apparently hoisted himself out of the crib and tumbled onto the wood floor before finally dying of starvation and dehydration. Both parents -- Jane Scott...
...passers-by recoiled in horror. Then, after a pregnant pause, the strangers 'fessed up: "Wait. What is the Lampoon, anyway...
Three-year Hubba Hubba employee Marty Starr--who plays Dr. Frankenfurter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the Square each weekend--says that Phelps clearly had a vision in creating Hubba Hubba...
...fact, Bush only reacted when the American public began to feel horror and remorse over the media stories of hundreds of thousands of freezing, starving refugees fleeing Saddam's helicopter gunships. His response was humanitarian aid, but it was too late to forestall the disaster for the Kurdish nation...