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Rain is scarce in these snow-peaked Himalayas of northern India, and summers bring dust storms that whip across craggy brown slopes and sun-chapped faces. Glaciers are the sole source of fresh water for the Buddhist farmers who make up more than 70% of the population in this rugged range between Pakistan and China. But rising temperatures have seen the icy snow retreat by dozens of feet each year - to find evidence of global warming, the farmers simply have to glance up from their fields and see the rising patches of brown where, once, all was white. Knowing...
...outside and carry a huge ladder with him up two flights to my garage upstairs-where he climbs into an area I've never dared go, crawling along the beams with a screwdriver between his teeth. Finding nothing, he climbs down, knocks the dirt off his jeans, blows the dust out of his nose, rinses his hands and returns to the table. The shriek starts again, and Clooney thinks for a few seconds, ducks down and yanks the carbon monoxide detector out of the outlet. "Either it needs a battery," he says, "or we have six seconds to live...
...example, pouring concrete is a process that should not be interrupted and may require extra hours after six o’clock . Harvard should not cut corners in building this new addition to the campus. As can be seen by Harvard’s attempts to minimize noise, dust, and vibration caused by the construction, Harvard is making every effort to make the new Science Complex as painless as possible. The after-hour construction was not an insidious action. Construction is always a logistical nightmare, and mix-ups are to be expected. In order to make this process as efficient...
...during summer and fall, after work they sit outside and smoke or play cards and drink beer; it's a hard life, and the workers find diversions wherever they can. One day last winter when our house was under construction, I noticed some Chinese characters scrawled in the dust underneath a windowsill. I couldn't read them so I called over to my wife to see if she could. She laughed. It was an important message: it named a local karaoke club as the place to go "for good prostitutes...
...dust in the air, no worries, because we are cleaning house right now,” he said...