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...towns in the region are less affected because they get their water from wells. The big cities get theirs, though, from snow melting off the Cascade Range to the east. Not only was precipitation less than normal last winter, but temperatures were warmer. Much of the snow fell as rain and ran off right away, at a time when city reservoirs were full anyway...
This was not the way the script was supposed to turn out. Dave Johnson and Dan O'Brien, the rival U.S. decathlon stars who have been battling for three years to see who would capture the "world's greatest athlete" laurels in Barcelona, last week met on a rain-soaked track at Azusa Pacific University outside Los Angeles to film a hastily rewritten Reebok shoe ad. As they waited for the cameras to roll, their conversation remained on emotionally safe subjects like new golf clubs. There was no discussion of O'Brien's memorable miss in the pole vault...
...this drama, we are the aliens. We have ventured into the last vast unexplored rain forest on earth -- the unsullied Ndoki region of northern Congo -- a place where the animals do not know what to make of us because they have never seen humans before...
...that has reduced rainfall more than 10% over the past 30 years. Many scientists believe the shortage of rainfall stems from the widespread deforestation by humans in other parts of Africa, which may have changed the continent's weather , patterns. Already the Ndoki is one of the dryest tropical rain forests on earth, and if rainfall keeps decreasing, the woodland may be doomed no matter what legal protection it receives...
...journey into the last vast unexplored territory on earth -- the Ndoki rain forest in central Africa -- brings astonishing encounters with animals that have never seen a human being before. Can this enchanted enclave be preserved...