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...convenience-store bandit -- she loses all the getaway money that Louise had scraped together from her life savings. But what might have seemed yet another rape, this time of a more symbolic kind, turns out to be a fair exchange. The hitchhiker, using Thelma's hair dryer as a gun substitute, teaches her the tricks of his dubious trade; soon she is doing hold-ups. It is Thelma too who gets the drop on a cop who stops the two women for speeding, orders him into the trunk of his squad car, and gently warns him to be sweet...
...Even in dryer regions sparse shrubs can help maintain rainfall. Some scientists argue that once ground cover is stripped, the land hardens and evaporates less moisture into the air. At the same time, the naked soil reflects more sunlight, triggering atmospheric processes that reduce rainfall by drawing dryer air into the area...
FLASHBACKS: ON RETURNING TO VIETNAM by Morley Safer (Random House; $18.95). Visiting old battlegrounds and interviewing old soldiers, the veteran CBS correspondent reminds us of a time when the typewriter, not the portable hair dryer, was the essential tool of the TV journalist...
...mostly destroy. The footage of troops burning peasant huts was seen by millions on the CBS News. It was an era of "tragic foolishness," says Safer in Flashbacks, an artful contrast of past and present that recalls a time when the typewriter, not the portable hair dryer, was the essential tool of the TV journalist...
...offered to make electric power available to Syria and Iraq from the huge 22-dam Anatolia project, due for completion in 2005. Over the long term, the offer may cool tempers, but in the next few weeks the simmering water war could get hotter as Syria and Iraq get dryer...