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...created a fabulous garden city surrounded by vast palaces. The King was clearly obsessed with irrigation, designing a lake so immense it came to be known as a sea. Parakramabahu's main palace retains only three of its original seven stories, but judging by its three-meter-thick walls and vast floor plan, it was once a noble edifice. Superb stone lions at the top of the entrance steps were symbols of royal power, as was a frieze of elephants around the outer wall. A short hop away is the royal bathing pool, a stepped tank with evil-looking crocodile...
...DIED. AUDREY MESTRE, 28, French diver who sought to break the world free-diving record by descending to a depth of 171 meters on a single breath, attached to a pulley and a 90-kg weight; off the coast of La Romana, Dominican Republic. Mestre reached the target depth but suffered a fatal accident while surfacing, disqualifying the bid. She was posthumously awarded the world record?breaking the previous mark of 162 meters set by her husband, Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras?for a 170-meter test dive made three days earlier...
...Essentially, most of the city is either resident permit parking or meter parking,” she says. “The permit parking can be a rude awakening when people come to Cambridge...
...malnutrition over the summer, some among them gunned down two cannabis growers who were hoarding water upstream. An hour's drive to the east of Dalicharbolak, a village headman says his is the only settlement out of 38 nearby that has potable water?in effect, a single half-meter-wide well must provide for 60,000 people. The headman claims that anyone is welcome to use his well, but the guards fingering AK-47s and a mounted heavy machine gun around the borehole suggest otherwise...
...what cannabis is doing to Afghanistan is to be found at the village of Deh Naw, half an hour to the north of Mazar along Afghanistan's main north-south highway. Just out of sight of the hash hills upstream, the desert is swallowing Deh Naw whole. Five-meter-high sand dunes have crashed over the village's mud walls like desiccated tidal waves, burying houses, blocking streets and suffocating the vines and the mulberry, fig and pomegranate trees that once blossomed here. The 600 villagers survive by gathering desert thornbushes?used for lighting fires?and trading them for access...