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...knows when the drought will end. Scientists believe this dry spell, which has plagued a broad swath of the West since 1999, is more typical of the region than its 60 million inhabitants would care to admit. As Charles Ester, chief hydrologist for Arizona's Salt River Project, a major provider of water and electricity, puts it, "What we took as a period of normal rainfall in the past century was actually a period of abundance...
Underwater scrubbing is a pain. These days, robotic gizmos calculate a pool's dimensions, then scour its bottom, sides and steps for dirt and debris. And adding chlorine manually is a thing of the past. Pool gadgets gradually convert salt to chlorine and pump it into the water, saving you the trouble of pouring in powder yourself...
...your own batch back home, skin a baked eggplant while it's still fairly hot, then mash it up with a dash of lemon juice and a cup of extra virgin olive oil - Greek, natch; mix in some grated raw onion, two cloves of garlic, parsley, vinegar and some salt and pepper. And, as the Greeks say, kali orexi (bon appétit)! yiouvetsi This traditional lamb casserole is named after the round terracotta dish in which it's cooked. Long a staple of Greece 's island communities, yiouvetsi is increasingly served at upscale taverns like Daphne...
...Roslyn McLeod, Burlington, Ont. Fiona Milne, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Andreanne Morin, Montreal Sarah Pape, Toronto Jeffrey Powell, Winnipeg, Man. Brian Price, Belleville, Ont. Benjamin Rutledge, Cranbrook, B.C. Joseph Stankevicius, Dundas, Ont. Romina Stefancic, Victoria, B.C. Pauline Van Roessel, Bow Island, Alta. Jake Wetzel, Saskatoon, Sask. Barney Williams, Salt Spring Island, B.C. Buffy Williams, St. Catharines...
...sculptures, with the words: do you want a close encounter? Perhaps even more crucial than the lure of tourist dollars is the lifting of a town's sagging spirits. And it's taken an eccentric Englishman to show black and white Australia coexisting peacefully on a salt plain. "When you're totally starkers, you're basically all the same," says Finlayson. "Instead of it being Them and Us, it's We." It could be yet another mirage on Lake Ballard, tantalizingly out of reach. But for the moment in Menzies, the sentiment is real...