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...dams reducing the flow of the river, salt water from the South China Sea has begun traveling up the Mekong. The influx of brackish water over the past few years has ravaged farms and fisheries. This spring in the delta's Mo Cay district, Nguyen Thi Hong and her husband watched helplessly as salt water infiltrated their fish farms and fields. During the worst 10-day stretch, 100 catfish died a day, while their entire aquatic-vegetable crop withered. "Our pigs and cows are still sick from drinking the salty water," says Hong, who lives about 30 miles...
...many will you see this year? I buy 30 tickets, and my husband comes to three or four. I will probably see about 20 this year...
...some very select ZIP codes. So who are the real hypocrites here, and how do we decide, publicly and privately, what conduct to encourage or condemn? Maybe we'll know when the day ever comes that the real political scandal is the discovery of a Senator cheating on his husband...
...baby was put up for illegal adoption, and she came to Antigua to see if Esther was one of the infants found at Casa Quivira. "We are not animals to be bought and sold," she says, clutching Esther's photo. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Roth had been waiting with her husband David to adopt a boy and a girl from Casa Quivira - but now, after having paid half the $30,000 fee, she finds everything in a precarious state of limbo. "I feel," says Ann, 37, "like someone has kicked me in the stomach ten times...
Alonso, who calls the lack of government action a "disgrace," shares the despair of many farmers in Carpio. As she and her husband, along with four hired workers, toss aside the ruined potatoes they've just unearthed, she frets about the future. "The voles have taken our winter bread," she says. "What are we going...