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...past three decades, farmers have pumped water out of the Ogallala as if it were inexhaustible. Nowadays they disperse it prodigally through huge center-pivot irrigation sprinklers, which moisten circular swaths a quarter-mile in diameter. The annual overdraft (the amount of water not replenished) is nearly equal to the yearly flow of the Colorado River. Like all aquifers, the Ogallala depends on rain water for recharging, and only a trickle of the annual local rainfall ever reaches it. Gradually built up over millions of years, the aquifer is being drained in a fraction of that time. The question...
Pure for sure, but deceptively simple. Each of her plays pries the audience's eyes open with an outrageous act, then makes them crinkle with laughter and moisten, just a bit, as Henley's daffy women reveal their desires and fears with slumber-party bravado. By the end of the evening, caricatures have been fleshed into characters, jokes into down-home truths, domestic atrocities into strategies for staying alive. Not bad for a young woman who, until three years ago, was eking out her stalled career as a Los Angeles actress by sitting at her kitchen table...
...making his decisions, Martin is confronted by a complex series of deadlines. Some biologists are worried that the "chicken soup"-a nutrient-rich broth that will be used to moisten samples of Martian soil to determine if they contain organisms-will not keep long enough for all of the experiments scheduled. Even more vexing, Viking 2 is scheduled to arrive at Mars and go into orbit on Aug. 7. That will crowd the schedule of the Viking 1 lander, which will not begin to conduct its experiments until eight days after it lands. Each of the experiments requires an eleven...
...tidal waters. In the past, flooding was a rarity in Venice. But now it has become almost a regular occurrence, as winds and new tidal currents trap an overflow of water behind the lagoon's three egresses. Along the canals, water has seeped through foundations to crack and moisten plaster walls -some of them holding priceless paintings. The frescoes by Paolo Veronese in the Church of San Sebastiano, for example, have become cracked and lumped by moisture. A preview of what can happen came in the disastrous floods of November 1966. Whipped by abnormally high winds, the water level...
...middle of the diamond, and 3) announced, then called back seven successive pinch hitters before finally allowing the game to proceed. One day last month, to back up his claim that the umps were permitting flagrant use of the illegal spitball, he deliberately ordered Braves pitchers to moisten the ball, kept careful count of how many times (75) they got by with it, and released the statistic to sportswriters after the game. Bobby's latest project is to embarrass the whole city of Milwaukee−by giving it a National League pennant...