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Some of the distressed farmers are suffering because they have planted thirsty crops -- rice, cotton, alfalfa -- that would not be economical to grow in the first place if water cost more. Farmers also typically use the most wasteful method of irrigation: ditches. The drip method, which supplies water in needed quantities to each plant, uses about 20% less water than ditches, but as long as water is cheap, farmers have no reason to spend the money to install drip systems. Says Richard Howitt, professor of agricultural economics at the University of California at Davis: "We should be treating water like...
...CAPTION: DRIP DRIP...
...enjoy the Square. Wander around, but don't forget to bring napkins, because whatever you get, it probably will drip...
...bubble-gum pink. As reflected in the mirrored, barrel-vaulted ceilings, the honeycombed carpets seem to vibrate. Twenty-four hand-carved Austrian-crystal chandeliers (at $250,000 apiece) dangle in the vaults like melting diamond slush, creating the impression that at any minute one of the sparkling crystals might drip down into some overeager gambler's decolletage...
...Ripeness was all. Monet produced his best work after he turned 50, and it came to form the essential link between symbolism, with its cult of the nuance and its obsession with "getting behind" ordinary reality, and abstract painting. You can hardly imagine Jackson Pollock's all-over drip paintings, for instance, without the example of late Monet. But the real value of Monet's work lies not in what it predicted or how it was used by later artists but in itself: its intensity and breadth of vision, its lyrical beauty and the disciplined subtlety of its address...