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...result is a severe shortage of food and medicine. At Agabar, a sprawling relief camp housing 44,000 people, a huge field was cleared on which camp farmers could grow vegetables and other crops. The project has come to a standstill for lack of a few feet of pipe to carry water for irrigation from a nearby stream. Malaria is rampant because camp officials have been unable to persuade the inmates to fill in the water holes they dig in an adjacent stream bed; the puddles are perfect breeding spots for disease-carrying mosquitoes...
...Waverly consists of six singers and four instrumentalists. They take the stage in modified period costume, the men in loose peasant blouses, the women in simple long dresses. Their performing delightfully blends the contrasting austerity and amiability of early music. Over the drone of string tones, plangent woodwinds pipe and trill, punctuated occasionally by bells or the shiver of tambourines. The singers spin out long, pure lines, immaculate in pitch and virtually free of vibrato. There are intricate madrigals, courtly love ballads, ribald drinking songs, solemn liturgical anthems, sprightly dances. Between numbers, Director Michael Jaffee, 41, may look up from...
...spends much time reading: "The science-fiction writer had better keep up with current science and avoid dumb mistakes, or the other writers really let you know about it." She now attends fewer science-fiction conclaves and conventions than she once did, and has given up the pipe smoking that made her stand out in the crowds...
...East not only accommodates Western delusions but also compliments them with imitation. There are the lyrics of a popular Indian song inspired by a movie that found God in a hash pipe: "Take a drag. Take a drag. I'm wiped out./ Say it in the morning. Say it in the evening./ Hare Krishna Hare Rama Hare Krishna Hare Rama." There are also Western notions on better transcendence through chemistry. Mehta notes that young foreigners frequently sell their passports to buy drugs; the documents are reported stolen and easily replaced at local embassies. She also reports that villagers...
...Instead of going to Bermuda, a guy's going to buy a new pipe," Piper said...