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...need drains if it seldom rains, and it scarcely rains in West Texas. Dry lakes have been known to catch fire here. So precious is water that many people loathe lawns; others ostentatiously show their wealth by the look of their grassy places (still others, sensitive to criticism, sneakily install root-system watering devices, eliminating the telltale arc of an aboveground sprinkler). In any event, there were three feet of water standing in some streets of Midland and Odessa the day before the game...
...diabolical and delirious poetry of Stone. There was hardly a beat for transition, just an amphetamine rush of allusive imagery and electric boogie fused by will and some dark unknowable divining spirit. Bob Dylan not only lived on the margin, he was the margin. Approach at your peril. Precious few have ever got near him, and no one has gone beyond...
...system is an engineering marvel of the first order. It is designed to move precious Colorado River water, at the rate of more than 10 million cu. ft. per hour, from Lake Havasu on the California border southeast across the state to the expanding population centers of Phoenix and Tucson. A series of 14 pumping stations will force the water through a seven-mile tunnel in the Buckskin Mountains and lift the load 2,900 ft. over the course of a seven-day journey. The flow is monitored by a Modcomp JC 5000 computer situated in CAP headquarters near Phoenix...
Schiavo, free of interference, has now peacefully passed through a natural stage of life. Life is precious precisely because it is finite...
...season. But let's face it, the Sox played an April game. Wells looked like a 90-year-old fat guy with no evident desire to be pitching on a cold, raw night. Everyone in the lineup seemed to hit into a double-play or two. There was precious little spark in the World Champs, I felt, on the first day of their defense...