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In this case, the problem was the KhembalisтАЩ little island (fifty-two square kilometers, their website said),
which was clearly in all-too-good a location to contribute to ongoing studies of Gangean flooding and
tidal storms in the Indian Ocean. Anna tapped at her keyboard, bookmarking for an e-mail to Drepung,
cc-ing also the Khembalung Institute for Higher Studies, which he had told her about. This instituteтАЩs
website indicated it was devoted to medicinal and religious studies (whatever those were, she didnтАЩt want
to know) but that would be all rightтАФif the Khembalis could get a good proposal together, the need for a
wider range of fields among their researchers could become part of its тАЬbroader impactsтАЭ element, and
thus an advantage.

She searched the web further. USGCRP, the тАЬU.S. Global Change Research Program,тАЭ two billion
dollars a year; the South Asian START Regional Research Centre (SAS-RRC), based at the National
Physical Laboratory in New Delhi, stations in Bangladesh, Nepal, and MauritiusтАжChina and Thailand,
aerosol studyтАжINDOEX, the Indian Ocean Experiment, also concerned with aerosols, as was its
offspring, Project Asian Brown Cloud. These studied the ever-thickening haze covering South Asia and
making the monsoon irregular, with disastrous results. Certainly Khembalung was well-situated to join
that study. Also ALGAS, the тАЬAsia Least Cost Greenhouse Gas Abatement StrategyтАЭ; and LOICZ,
тАЬLand Ocean Interaction in the Coastal Zones.тАЭ That one had to be right on the money. Sri Lanka was
the leader there, lots of estuarine modelingтАФKhembalung would make a perfect study site. Training,
networking, bio-geo-chemical cycle budgeting, socioeconomic modeling, impacts on the coastal systems
of South Asia. Bookmark the site, add to the e-mail. A research facility in the mouth of the Ganges
would be a very useful thing for all concerned.

тАЬAh shit.тАЭ

She had overflowed the milk bottle. Not the first time for that mistake. She turned off the pump, poured
off some of the milk from the full bottle into a four-ounce sack. She always filled quite a few
four-ouncers, for use as snacks or supplements when Joe was feeling extra hungry; she had never told
Charlie that most of these were the result of her inattention. Since Joe often was extra hungry, Charlie
said, they were useful.

As for herself, she was starving. It was always that way after pumping sessions. Each twenty ounces of
milk she gave was the result of some thousand calories burned by her in the previous day, as far as she
had been able to calculate; the analyses she had found had been pretty rough. In any case, she could with
a clear conscience (and great pleasure) run down to the pizza place and eat till she was stuffed. Indeed
she needed to eat or she would get light-headed.

But first she had to pump the other breast at least a little, because let-down happened in both when she
pumped, and she would end up uncomfortable if she didnтАЩt. So she put the ten-ouncer in the little
refrigerator, then got the other side going into the four-ouncer, while printing out a list of all the sites she
had visited, so that over her lunch she could write notes on them before she forgot what she had learned.

She called Drepung, who answered his cell phone number.

тАЬDrepung, can you meet for lunch? IтАЩve got some ideas for how you might get some science support
there in Khembalung. Some of itтАЩs from NSF, some from elsewhere.тАЭ

тАЬYes, of course Anna, thanks very much. IтАЩll meet you at the Food Factory in twenty minutes, if thatтАЩs all
right, IтАЩm just trying to buy some shoes for Rudra down the street here.тАЭ