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...familiar tale of modern development. In the last decade man drowned many of the forests behind vast new dams, cut down what timber remained and hunted to extinction the wild deer, boar and sheep that are the leopards' preferred prey. In the time it took to fill a reservoir, the leopards of the Ghats found themselves in the open, homeless and hungry. You'd expect a few attacks from these desperate creatures. Then you'd expect them to disappear...
...saying that Hollywood should keep its mitts off Asian films. A decade ago, Quentin Tarantino did a cool twist (Reservoir Dogs) on a Hong Kong crime story (City on Fire). The challenge is for Western directors to transform the Eastern originals with all the grit and glamour at their command. The alternative is to settle for making blown-up dupes of movies like The Ring. And that prospect is really ... scary...
...Moscow, injuring seven people. MIDDLE EAST Hot Water Israel protested when Lebanon inaugurated a project to pump water from a river near their joint border. The Lebanese project will draw water from a tributary of the Hasbani River, which feeds the Sea of Galilee, Israel's largest freshwater reservoir. KENYA Breaking Up President Daniel Arap Moi's KANU party split over his choice of successor. The party, which has ruled Kenya for 40 years, was divided over Moi's decision to name political neophyte Uhuru Kenyatta, son of the country's founding father Jomo Kenyatta, as kanu's candidate...
...Ridge fire, northeast of town, burned 70,000 acres. Only 2.86 in. of rain have fallen all year. And Durango, which since 1877 has had first rights to the water that flows down the Florida River and the local Animas, can hold only a seven-day supply in its reservoir. So the city uses up most of its entitlement, consuming 6 million gal. of water a day to preserve an oasis environment on a semidesert plateau. The golf course alone absorbs half a million gallons a day, water that would otherwise flow downstream and feed the Colorado River. "We created...
...downstream is wasted water. Any water that can be held captive behind the thousands of dams built under the 1902 Reclamation Act is good water. Today the contradictions of this water policy are starting to show through as clearly as the cracked earth on the bottom of the Lemon Reservoir. Some 14 miles northeast of Durango, the Lemon was built in 1963 to hold 40,000 acre-ft. of water for irrigation in the area. It is down to 9% of capacity, all irrigation has been suspended, and the reservoir serves as an amusement for locals who drive pickups outonto...