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...state governments have yet to produce coherent plans for rain harvesting or water storage, and existing reservoirs, channels and pipes are notoriously badly maintained. In 11 states across central and western India-including the "bread basket" states of Punjab and Haryana-this year's rainfall is 20-59% below normal. In Vidarbha region in central India, only 10% of the land is irrigated, despite continual pleas from farmers for the local government to provide a more comprehensive watering system. Farmers' federation leader Vijay Jawandhia estimates that up to 40% of Vidarbha's soybean and cotton crop is already lost. With...
...hoteliers, will phone Walshe for his estimates, but it's his colleagues in event services who rely on them most. They use them as the basis for decisions on match-day staffing, such as how many of the club's 850 casual workers to call on (around 450 is normal for an average M.C.G. home-and-away crowd of 38,000), and how many to allocate to each of the various roles (ticket selling, spruiking, ushering, supervising). The club's contracted caterer, Spotless, is another interested party: it stocks its outer-ground food outlets according to trusted ratios...
...poster boy as well as an amateur poker philosopher. He credits the media for the game's revival and points to the Travel Channel's widely watched World Poker Tour series. "There's elimination," says Affleck, "there's victory, there's defeat and there are real stakes involving everyday, normal people...
...virtual impossibility. We launched a unilateral and pre-emptive war on Iraq on the basis of false claims, enraging the entire Islamic world, and now a new jihad has developed against us there. Will our foreign policy again midwife a new fundamentalist state into existence? JOHN A. BERTSCHE Normal...
...move again--and the beleaguered travel industry is breathing a sigh of relief. According to a report by the International Air Traffic Association (IATA) released last month, global air-traffic levels in the first five months of this year have been 8.8% above those of 2000, the last normal year for the industry (before SARS and terrorism struck). The Madrid-based World Tourism Organization (WTO), a United Nations agency, echoes the good news. It expects tourism to grow 5% in 2004. The WTO reports that France is the most popular tourist destination this year. Asia is also rebounding from last...