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...things in Las Vegas are actually meant to be there. Not the ersatz Eiffel Tower at the Paris casino, not the white tigers from India that frolic nightly with Siegfried and Roy, and certainly not the lush residential lawns that grow emerald-green year round in the desert region. But while the landmark replicas and exotic felines draw tourists and dollars, the well-coiffed lawns drain the city's resources because of the amount of water it takes to maintain them. That's why the Southern Nevada Water Authority has started offering homeowners money--40[cents] per sq. ft., with...
...their lawn by more than half, to 2,000 sq. ft., and are looking forward to decreased water bills. But both say they would have relandscaped for aesthetic reasons even without the financial incentive. Though they left some patches of grass, today they look out on a landscape of desert flowers and plants. The onset of summer may have other gardeners pouncing on brown areas with water and fertilizer, but the Gillespies' garden requires little additional sustenance. Since Las Vegas launched its water-conservation program in 1998, 3 million sq. ft. of lawn have been upended, and more soil...
DIED. DONALD J. CRAM, 82, UCLA professor and researcher who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for synthesizing molecules that mimicked the way enzymes work in the body, and were later used in sensors and electrodes; of cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif...
Oufkir's Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Talk Miramax Books; $24.00; 293 pages) is a unique story of true life behind the palace walls. Living in Paris since 1996, Oufkir reports on the kindnesses as well as the cruelties and exposes secrets that few outsiders could learn, like the sex lives of royal concubines. Her heartbreaking confessions and the breathtaking plot have made the book a best seller in France in 1999 and now in the U.S. as well, thanks in large part to its selection by Oprah's book club. Writing her story, Oufkir explains between...
...commit to a project for so long," Wong recalls, "as she also had to earn money and pay the rent." In the end, Wong and his star opted for the commercial, and it was Zhang Ziyi who ended up atop the tiled rooftops, on horseback in China's western desert and at the Oscar ceremony in March. Sitting in his office in Hong Kong's Tin Hau district, Wong now says: "I have no regrets." After a pause, he adds: "Ang Lee should have been most disappointed. You watch Zhang Ziyi in the film, and she's following...