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...coincidence that the Dai, an ethnic minority concentrated in southwestern China's Yunnan province, ring in their New Year in mid-April by sprinkling each other with cold water. April is the driest month for subtropical regions like Yunnan, which depend on the coming of seasonal rains for their fertility. Historically, water-splashing has been a symbolic way of beseeching the divine to bring an end to scarcity and hasten a period of abundance. Never have the people of South China needed that abundance more than now, during the worst drought the area has seen in nearly a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drought Throws Cold Water on Yunnan's Water Festival | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...pass and she decides almost right away that she wants him to let her in, to really like her. She's a sucker for a wounded soul and for some reason, she finds Greenberg appealing. It can't be the sex: these are the least loving, least sexy, driest sex scenes ever filmed. (He tops off a halfhearted tour of her body by asking if that's a cold sore on her lip.) Like practically every female character ever created by Woody Allen, she inexplicably desires a jerk she feels sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenberg: When the Nasty Guy Gets the Girl | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

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