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Kai Bird is the co-author with Martin J. Sherwin of "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. www.KaiBird.com

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'Water' by Steven Solomon: A View From the Melting Himalayan Glaciers

0 Comments | Posted February 19, 2010 | 12:12 PM

I am reading Steve Solomon's "Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization" (HarperCollins 2010) from a perhaps wholly unique vantage point. I live in Kathmandu, Nepal, and I bet I am the only guy in all of Nepal--population 30 million--reading Solomon's "Water." Which is a shame. It is...

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