Predicting the Present

A rickshaw driver wades through a flooded street in Ambala, 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of New Delhi, Tuesday, August 3, 2004. The death toll from monsoon flooding in India crossed 1,000 Wednesday with reports of at least 168 people killed in the country's west, north and east as rains destroyed crops, flooded highways and halted trains in South Asia. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)