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KHULNA, Bangladesh - Flooding is a frequent problem in Chandipur, a village in southwestern Bangladesh. When storms increase the water levels of surrounding rivers, salty water pours in. As a result, farmland throughout the village is ruined, and growing crops becomes harder. The situation became particularly bad after Cyclone Aila hit in 2009. The storm sent salty water surging onto farmlands and it soaked into the soil. After 2009, vegetable crops in Chandipur produced small harvests. Some failed completely.

The announcement comes about a week after the state's first case of measles of the year was confirmed. Cook County health officials would only identify the person with measles as a suburban resident who is older than 18. At the time, officials listed three places where others might have come into contact with the measles patient in mid-January - including two in Palatine.

That acoustic convergence suggests that an important element of language cognition may have been present 7 million to 13 million years ago, in the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans.