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...country will go about its business in the meantime, and will doubtless come out fine, give or take. Al Gore desperately wants the job but is determined to win or lose on his own merits. George W. Bush can't wait to get started - it looks like a real hoot...
After reading these tales of the ruinous river diversions of Soviet planners and American water experts, you might conclude that ecological ignorance unites all nations. Misanthropes will hoot as governments simultaneously beggar their neighbors and poison their own wells. With a brutal accounting looming for our profligate misuse of earth's amniotic fluid, the author offers ways that countries can secure more supplies. The most likely scenario is an old standby: steal water from others...
...folks who run the competition are fellow travelers with the Environmental Action Committee, a gaggle of Birken-stocked lefties whose hearts are a little too large. They're the sort of guys who give more than a hoot about the spotted owl, who know that it's inhumane to treat other creatures like bugs. After all, if we have no qualms about killing innocent arthropods, can puppies be far behind...
...celebrating TV history, these revivals tend to smooth it over. CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (May 19, 8 p.m. E.T.), which brings the Duke boys' story up to date, is the same Southern-fried minstrelsy that makes the series a hoot to remember but excruciating to relive. But worse, by making Bo and Luke allies with Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane and deputies Enos and Cletus, the movie guts the one aspect of the show that made it more than a cornpone car chase--two good ole boys "fightin' the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods...
Viewed sheerly as entertainment, Walking is part spectacle, part hoot. The dinos can be breathtaking from a distance, especially in the gorgeous underwater scenes; close-up, they're sometimes as convincing as the Sleestacks in Land of the Lost. The narration, while informative, can slip into corny anthropomorphism ("This female Utahraptor is up to no good!"), none of which undercuts the eternal coolness factor of the extinct. Last month Discovery's Raising the Mammoth drew 10.1 million people, the biggest cable-documentary audience ever, and Haines is at work on follow-ups. Thankfully, his stars may be able to crush...