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...after severe storms, others either shrivel and die - like their crops and their livestock before them - or move on as environmental refugees. In Canada - which has about the same amount of water as China but less than 2.5% of its population - the resource has been labeled "blue gold." In parched Botswana, dominated by the Kalahari Desert, water is so precious that the national currency is called pula - "rain" in the Setswana language...
MOVIE The Big Lebowski "Anything the Coen brothers do turns into gold...
...helped, of course, that the missionaries brought more than just Scripture to the villagers. They gave out food and medicine too. "Aspirin was like a gold nugget," Boykin says. As North Americans, they enjoyed celebrity status in rural Peru. They came from a richer, cleaner, shinier planet far, far away. "They would set up a hammock for you in their hut and bring out fish and fruit," says Boykin. "You could be there forever and not find out that every time you finish eating, they're in back eating your leftovers...
Sisqo is the kind of rich folk we like. This is our unspoken deal with the wealthy: we don't begrudge them their money too much as long as they blow some of it on the sort of ludicrous, solid-gold-birdbath fantasies that get us through our bitter little lives. (Why else would we put up with Donald Trump?) By this standard, music stars, who spend their fresh-minted cash like a drunk 12-year-old would, are the best rich folk of all, and Cribs (Thursdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), the music network's cult-hit home-tour show...
...symbolic references. A case in point is the exquisite Woman with a Balance, circa 1663-64. A young and beautiful housewife stands at a table on which are scattered her more precious worldly goods--strings of pearls (including a rare set of "black" pearls, which are actually gunmetal gray), gold and silver coins, and boxes that presumably contain more small treasures. She gazes with rapt attention at a jeweler's balance, which has nothing in either scale; she is checking that the empty balance hangs level...