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The wind was like medicine. There were only two of us on deck. The captain, Nick, had the good sense to stay in the pilothouse of the square-rigger, the ‘Coral Trekker’.

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View images of the West’s water crisis, one fueled by rising temperatures and growing populations.

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“If I can accomplish this, I shall be the lion of the day,” wrote missionary Thomas Baker, bound for the mountains of Viti Levu, Fiji, in 1867. A Methodist minister from pastoral Sussex, England, Baker was an unlikely pioneer as he set off to teach cannibals an alternative dietary program, a venture that makes today’s thrill-seekers seem as daring as dirt.

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View images from around the globe that reflect 2007 World Water Day – and some of the issues around the natural resource.

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