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The only story filed with a foreign dateline on any of the three newscasts came from NBC's Ian Williams in India, narrating videotape of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, heading northwards towards low-lying Bangladesh with 150 mph winds. At least 10m of its population lives in the coastal zone less than 15 feet above sea level and the storm surge may exceed ten feet. By coincidence, CBS closed with Daniel Sieberg's feature on freerice.com, a six-week-old Website that has paid for the United Nations' World Food Program to donate food there. The site features an interactive vocabulary quiz for fourth grade schoolchildren. Each time a child scores a correct answer, its corporate sponsors--such as Fujitsu, Toshiba, Apple Macintosh, Office Depot, American Express, Time-Life, Reader's Digest, Macy's, Liz Claiborne--donate ten grains. The quiz is such an "international viral sensation" that all those grains have already added up to 230 metric tons, "enough to feed 500,000 for one day. It could be on the ground in Bangladesh in a matter of weeks."
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