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...driest inhabited continent per capita, and as its population, urbanization and dirty industrialization grow - and global warming dries out the region - clean water will only become more precious. As a just-released report by the Asia Society argues, water will become the key to regional security in the 21st century - and Asia isn't ready. "This is a fundamental resource that we need to survive," says Suzanne DiMaggio, director of the Asia Society's Social Issues Program and the report's director. "The emerging picture on water is very worrisome...
...left - they just got tired of waiting," says Kosmos Biswokarma, spokesman for the U.N. mission in Nepal. "The rest are getting impatient. They want decisive action." Prachanda's biggest problem now will be containing this unrest and finding a solution. Until then, "the first great world experiment of the 21st century" - as Prachanda described the Maoists' political ascension in Nepal in November 2006 - may only yield more instability for the people of this tiny Himalayan nation...
...these things juxtaposed against each other. You see the context of things in relativity and how the two themes fit together.”Because the play explores timeless themes of sexuality, war, and the battle of the sexes, this classical Greek play was adapted fairly easily for the 21st century audience, save for the antiquated and esoteric jokes. “Adaptations have to be made because the play is funny in the original Greek but often only funny to Classicists,” Koven-Matasy says.By changing the language used in the play and having the actors dress...
...have its majesty but also to have personable, intimate forums,” Davis says. During the past seven months, Davis has implemented three daytime programs in the Poetry Room. In addition to REEL TIME, a weekly listening hour that features audio recordings of poetry from the 20th and 21st centuries, there is IMPROMPTU POETICS, which invites guest poets to recording sessions in the Poetry Room, which are also open to the public. Lastly, Woodberry Works-in-Progress allows scholars and artists to speak with attendees about projects that are in their nascent stages. “Seeing someone immersed...
...within. Using ground-penetrating radar, they have spied out three further subterranean passageways which they believe could lead to the grave. "If this tomb is found," Hawass told TV reporters as they set about their dig this week, "it will be one of the most important discoveries of the 21st century." (See pictures of Cleopatra through the ages...