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On India's Farms, a Plague of Suicide

By Somini Sengupta, September 19, 2006 BHADUMARI, India – Here in the center of India, on a gray Wednesday morning, a cotton farmer swallowed a bottle of …

Summer Was Warmest Since 1930s

By Margot Habiby, September 15, 2006 The continental United States endured the hottest summer since the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, and the second-warmest …