Amid the Roar of Rapids, a Silence so Rare It's Unsettling
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By Chris Bailey  As the last tiny drop of water slides from the resting oars, a profound silence seeps into the soul, a silence so rare to the modern ear that it carries more disquiet than peace.
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SONANKUPPAM, India -- Huddled in hushed silence, an anxious crowd stood staring at the approaching motorboat. As six bloated corpses were pulled out and laid on the ground, the crisp morning air was shattered by the shrill wails of women who began to examine the bodies, in search of a missing family member.
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Like snails, like glaciers, Eiko and Koma move slowly, so slowly, and yet even in stillness their bodies seem at all points suffused with meaning and, more particularly, feeling.
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They thought they'd never feel the adrenaline rush again. They were young, athletic, and the thrills they found in sailing a boat, fast, in conditions that put them right on the edge -- adrenaline conditions -- had been among those losses they experienced when accidents robbed them of physical function.
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By Janice Gaston, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 11--HILTON HEAD, S.C.   Late on a misty day, when the wind sighs through trees lining a deserted road and sets their beards of Spanish moss to fluttering, nature takes center stage here.
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Huddled in hushed silence, an anxious crowd stood staring at the approaching motorboat. As six bloated corpses were pulled out and laid on the ground, the crisp morning air was shattered by the shrill wails of women who began to examine the bodies, in search of a missing family member.
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By SUSAN LADD  PINE KNOLL SHORES __ You hear it before you see it __ the unmistakable sound of a waterfall. As you come within sight of it and move closer, the temperature actually seems to drop, just like it does in the mountains.
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Weâve seen what it did to calm seas on a sunny day. Even if we still canât believe it. This canât be real, we tell ourselves oceans away.
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Â· Torrential rains claim The Field's celebrated bridgeÂ· Country hit by flash floods, landslips and closed roads
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By MICHAEL ARTZ  The water was rising in Battery Park, and no one was sure why.
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MOAB, Utah _ What am I getting into, I muttered, as a summer storm crashed across the desert with thunder so deafening, I had to plug my ears.    I was at the orientation for a river-rafting trip, a five-day journey down the wild and remote Colorado River in the southern Utah desert.
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LUANG PRABANG, Laos  - Like everything else in the  Lao river town of Luang Prabang, the turbid Mekong appears at  ease as it meanders by.
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI NEW ORLEANS - Water is unforgiving to the dead and by the time the crews arrived, the men were missing their eyes.
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MANICARAGUA, Cuba -- It's early afternoon in this sweltering town, but air conditioners are off, the lights are out, and stereos are silent.
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Almost two weeks after the royal coup, the capital remains mostly quiet, a testament both to the ambivalence of Nepalese disillusioned by their short experience with democracy and to the chilling efficiency of the government's measures to suppress dissent.
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Some newcomers to the Hood River area are startled by a noise that sounds like a helicopter landing in their living rooms in the middle of the night.
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The first and most striking sensation is the howling - a primal cacophony reverberating across frozen Lake Chocorua in the morning chill.