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There is no shortage of ways to see just how short of water Lake Mead is. You can count the white bathtub rings of mineral deposits on the bedrock walls of the sprawling, 250-sq.-mi. (647 sq km) reservoir, indicating the old high-water mark--now left nakedly exposed 100 ft. up. You can look at the docks that have been moved repeatedly, chasing the receding lake. Or you can simply read a line graph at the reservoir's visitor center, which tracks the water elevation of Lake Mead since it was created by the construction of the Hoover...
Today, Soweto's population of an estimated 2 to 3 million is emerging as the bedrock of South Africa's new black middle class. Clapboard shanty towns are being replaced by neat rows of brick and tile bungalows. BMWs and Mercedes are a common sight. And last September saw the opening of a vast steel and glass mall. The choir's success reflects Soweto's new dawn. "Soweto is a place of change," says Bok, "and the choir walks hand in hand with Soweto...
...Eslamshahr, one such town of about 300,000 people an hour outside of Tehran, is typical of the places to which Ahmadinejad looks as the bedrock of his support. It's a dusty place with only basic infrastructure, greeting visitors with "Welcome to the martyr-nurturing town of Eslamshahr...
...there. After a decade in which the old automatic warmth for the U.S. had seemed to cool - as a younger generation of Koreans, with no personal memory of the shared fight against communism, came to maturity - Lee promised to take his country's foreign relations back to its traditional bedrock, speaking of the "deep mutual trust" between the two nations and promising to "strengthen our strategic alliance with...
...That's the kind of talk that strikes terror in the hearts of many Republicans and makes them worry that McCain might lack the fire to attack his Democratic rival or, if he won the White House, might abandon the bedrock values of the G.O.P. in his zeal to make deals with Democrats. If McCain loses Florida, and the nomination, it will be because Republicans can't overcome their doubts about him - and because McCain isn't willing to make it easy for them...