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Water, water everywhere

The US south coast wasn’t the only place to experience mass evacuations due to severe weather this week. Hundreds of thousands of people in north-east India have been forced from their homes by heavy rains and rising flood waters. In the eastern Indian state of Bihar, the floods have displaced around 3 million people and at least 90 have died.

Slimming Alabama

As if being fat in a thin world isn’t penalty enough, Alabama is bringing in a fat tax. Starting in 2011, its 37,000 state employees will have to cough up an extra $25 per month…

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