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...cities expanding, their thirst apparently unquenchable. The Old West here comes into direct conflict with the New: the leathery rancher in Wyoming with his herd to water vs. the condo-dwelling Sybarite in Laguna Beach with a Porsche to wash and two hot tubs to keep filled. The Metropolitan Water District, responsible for finding water for the cities of Southern California, is widely regarded by competing parties with fear and suspicion. Says Jerry Zimmerman, executive director of the Colorado River Board of California: "California is being accused of utilizing other states' water and attempting to continue to use water that...
...stations and a satellite uplink -- a purchase that was scheduled to occur the day he quit the church. Gorman contends he could have brought the plan off but for Swaggart's accusations. Instead his TV ministry went bankrupt in 1987, and he left the airwaves. His new church, the Metropolitan Christian Centre in suburban Metairie, La., has 450 congregants, and Gorman returned to the airwaves this month on a New Orleans UHF station. But his dream of a Texas-to-Alabama regional network has been dashed, and his debt exceeds $5 million...
...calories as well as how many calories are derived from fat. Yet the proposed requirement could end up trading one kind of confusion for another. "We're a little concerned that the consumer won't know how to interpret this number," says Guy Johnson, nutrition director for Grand Metropolitan's food sector. "Let's say you have a product that has 30 calories from fat, which would mean roughly 3 g of fat. That would basically be a pretty low-fat product. However, if people see the 30 and think of it as percent of calories from fat, they...
Last week the Bolshoi began a return visit to the U.S., and its opening production showed the effects of its struggle to adapt to changing times. At Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the company presented a brand-new version of its trademark work, Eugene Onegin. Only in the ballroom scene of the last act did the Bolshoi offer a whiff of its old grandiosity. Otherwise, the staging -- apparently designed to focus more attention on the main characters -- relied on one all-too-all-purpose country-house set for the first four scenes and on one skeletal tree for the fifth...
...MAGIC FLUTE (PBS, June 19, 8 p.m. on most stations). Artist David Hockney designed this Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart, starring Kathleen Battle...