Word: barriere
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Behind the smothering barrier of Vatican pomp and tradition, Pope Paul VI has often seemed a cold, formal and essentially unsympathetic figure - an uncomfortable clerical prisoner of the baroque ecclesiastical past...
Hardly a drop escapes the notice of the country's watchers. When the seas begin to seep into fresh-water wells near Tel Aviv, engineers pump fresh water into rock cavities between the wells and the sea, building up a barrier against seawater intrusion. Since agriculture is Israel's heaviest user of water, Israeli scientists are systematically searching for the answer to a question that has plagued farmers throughout history: How much water does each crop actually need? Using radioactive tracer materials, American-born Soil Physicist Daniel Hillel is keeping track of irrigation water as it enters...
...anti-transpirant chemicals, usually fatty acids, to reduce the loss of water from leaves. Because more than half of most irrigation water evaporates or is absorbed by the soil before it reaches its destination, Israeli farmers are encouraged to apply a wax coating to their ditches to form a barrier against absorption. Like the ancient Nabataeans who once cultivated the desert, the Israelis also practice "runoff farming." But the Nabataeans used wadi beds as catch basins; the Israelis cut contoured strips and seal alternating strips with modern, petroleum-based chemicals. Water is caught in the sealed strip and runs...
...today's artists. Austrian Expressionist Kokoschka responded first. Three years later Costantini produced his gay Bacchantes. Then Jean Cocteau got interested, traveled to Venice, christened the project "Forge of the Angels," and supplied drawings. Finally, even Picasso capitulated. To Costantini's enormous relief, language proved no barrier. "Speak Italian," ordered Pablo when the Venetian at last got his foot in the door. "Your French is impossible...
...must add an extra charge to steak, crab or lobster dinners. The prices of drinks are edging up too; in expensive Manhattan restaurants, a martini now mixes at $1.40. Going to the movies is a steadily more expensive pastime, and seats for Broadway musicals will soon smash the $10 barrier; one show will charge $11.90 this fall...