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...first time in China's recorded history, the Yellow dried up in patches and failed to reach the sea. Since then it has run dry so long and so often that some scientists have suggested it ought to be a considered an inland body of water, or even a seasonal phenomenon...
...hold. Late last week, Bandaranaike called an emergency meeting with Sri Lankan tour operators to deal with the crisis. While the government and the l.t.t.e. say they will attend peace talks in Geneva this week, the fighting continues: the Sri Lankan navy engaged Tiger rebels in a fierce sea battle last Friday, killing 20. Amid the mayhem, even hardy travelers are likely to rethink their vacation plans...
...resist reduction. One reason lawmakers have to draw such twisted districts to save their seats is that we are so much more purple than they'd like, a tangle of red suburbs of blue cities and blue counties in red states. That mischievous map of a huge central red sea cupped by blue parentheses on the coasts makes us look like a very different country than we really...
...important for the LP to keep them happy.“You have to appease the river gods,” Benkreira says. “When they’re happy, we have good weather, good rowing conditions.”The best way to please these deep-sea deities, as any good pagan knows, is human sacrifice. Thus, when a mischievous or simply uninformed rower disrespects the code, the LP holds full license to toss the offender into the Charles River, temporarily assuaging the gods’ appetite, and cleansing the oarsman of his transgression...
...made in the first place. And it's no easy task persuading proud villages to give up their names; one planned merger between the Moulis and Listrac appellations fell through in 2002 when the authorities in Moulis got cold feet. Still, for Bordeaux, this all amounts to a sea change in attitude. "Ten years ago, if the head of the CIVB had said we'll grub up vines, somebody would have set fire to his car," says Frédéric Guiraud, who runs a wine trading business near Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, a town on the eastern edge...