WASHINGTON, DC -- Asked once in an interview about the band's name, Beach House's Alex Scally likened it to a total escape from the every day. "It's not really a vacation," he said, "[V]acation for me is when you go away, but you're still thinking about all the...

DELHI, India -- For 24 years the sewer pipelines laid out in Sundar Nagri, a slum area in eastern Delhi, remained a simple reminder of what the neighborhood almost had.

Though installed by the government in 1984, the sewer piping had been left incomplete, set in place but still...