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...Toowoomba's residents are slowly running out of water, and have been for the past 15 years, along with nearly everyone else in this corner of eastern Australia. The region is undergoing its worst drought in over a century, and dead flower beds and brown football fields are the least of their worries. Toowoomba is the go-to city for a large rural area, including the nearby Darling Downs, fertile farm country until the rain went away and never came back. "We've been in water restriction in Toowoomba since 1992," says Dianne Thorley, the city's mayor of eight...
...early '40s he applied for a writing job at Svensk Filmindustri, the main movie studio in Sweden, and was interviewed by Stina Bergman, widow of playwright Hjalmar Bergman and head of the studio's script department. "He seemed to emerge with a scornful laugh from the darkest corner of Hell," she later recalled, but with "a charm so deadly that after a couple of hours' conversation, I had to have three cups of coffee to get back to normal." She hired Ingmar that...
...Toowoomba's residents are slowly running out of water, and have been for the last 15 years, along with nearly everyone else in this corner of eastern Australia. It's the region's worst and longest-lasting drought in over a century, and dead flower beds and brown football fields are the least of their worries. Toowoomba was the go-to city for a large rural area, including nearby Darling Downs, a fertile farmland, until the rain went away and never came back. "We've been in water restriction in Toowoomba since 1992," says Dianne Thorley, the city's mayor...
...used in different parts of the world for more than 60 years, with varying success. But the improvement of weather technology - and an enduring human interest in trying to play with the sky - has kept the practice afloat during times of hard skepticism and dwindling funds. Now this thirsty corner of Australia could be on the path to prove, once and for all, whether we can help make rain...
...Europeans' generally more liberal views on sex and many Berliners' familiarity with governmental interference in private life, a product of their experiences under the old East German regime. But it seems that the most important factor is a shared sense of urgency about safe sex: in the bottom-left corner of each poster, regardless of produce type, condom color, or slogan, is a box containing the words “Gib AIDS keine Chance”—don’t give AIDS a chance. The smaller print reminds the reader that every instance of unsafe...