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...region's thirsty cities. That would be challenging politically, but something has to give. Still, while Lake Mead has shrunk to just 52% of capacity, the immense reservoir still contains an incredible 9 trillion gal. (35 trillion cu L) of water. But the dry sky above and the rock all around reinforce the inescapable fact that this land was a desert, is a desert and always will be a desert. When the American explorer J.C. Ives visited the present location of the Hoover Dam in 1857, he declared the land "worthless," adding, "There is nothing there to do but leave...
...cash - its concerts, say, or merchandise sales - weren't any of the label's business. But now, with album sales plummeting, music companies are chasing juicier income from touring and branded goods. Part of that revenue stream figures in Live Nation's $120 million deal with Madonna. Likewise, U.S. rock group Korn now carves up its nonmusic income with EMI; Interscope Records, a U.S. label owned by Universal Music, even gets a cut from a Las Vegas nightclub endorsed by the Pussycat Dolls. The appeal for artists? Labels can pledge greater, longer-term support - and big, upfront payments in many...
...Culture or a migrant European population? No one knows for sure. A maze of man-made chambers, walls and ceremonial meeting places, America’s Stonehenge is possibly the oldest man-made construction in the United States (over 4000 years old).” The mysterious caves and rock formations are supposedly built by both pre-historic and historic people! Take your girlfriend or your parents—Cancun is overrated...
...only one watching: the video has gotten almost four million hits (another, with Britney, Beyoncé, and Pink singing “We Will Rock You” has gotten more than 12 million). What are we looking for? Why do we, in 2008, keep coming back to this pristine but painful image of an all-too-changed icon...
...Chaney’s charges focus on the projector screen as the well-muscled Leonidas—star of the mayhem-laden film “300”—claws his way up a bare rock face. The Spartan commander has only a cloak and a loincloth to protect him from the elements. Despite his formidable abdominals, the climb seems to be giving him some trouble...