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...Between free T-shirts and altruism, we manage to get everybody," said organizer Zachary D. Drench...
...hidden side of the cosmos. Some, using telescopes, are taking aim at the dark halo that rings our galaxy, searching for large, dim objects like burned-out stars. Others are positioning electronic detectors in underground tunnels, hoping to entrap phantom particles that may be so prevalent that they drench the universe like invisible drops of rain. "Someday soon," predicts University of Chicago astrophysicist David Schramm, "one of these groups is going to strike gold -- Swedish gold," the kind that bears the likeness of Alfred Bernhard Nobel...
...spate of "alternative" rock bands looking more like an Urban Outfitters ad than a music group, every city needs at least one upstart band with its eye on what made punk rock great in the first place--raging guitars, drums pounding out a fiercely danceable beat and lyrics which drench themselves in the sufferings of everyday urban life...
...invading Prussians, march on Paris -- whistling the tune as they went -- depose the King and fire the imagination of all Europe. That was 200 years ago. Today the song's robust words, which bristle with righteous anger at la tyrannie and enjoin the children of revolutionary France to "drench our fields" with the "tainted blood" of the enemy, are under siege by those who feel the piece smacks of political incorrectness...
Donald Gilman, the National Weather Service's long-range forecaster, is cautiously hoping that the tropical Pacific's El Nino and the North American jet stream will keep behaving, so that eventually rainstorms will be lured up from the Gulf to drench the croplands. Kentucky and Tennessee last week got a bit of that action. But many more downpours are needed. Iowa's rich loam has only a third of the usual subsoil moisture. Hydrologists have warned New York that if reservoirs do not fill soon, the city could have water shortages this summer. With California reservoirs at 42% capacity...