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...should be safe for decades. One solution could involve diverting more of the river's water away from agriculture--which claims 85% of the supply--in favor of the 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...
...recent decades. Two-thirds of the nations cited by Cheney "have only short-range ballistic missiles with ranges under 1,000 kilometers - basically Scuds. This is often ignored when officials or experts cite the 30 countries with ballistic missile capability." The long-range missiles threatening the U.S. have shrunk by 71% over the past 20 years, he said, and are based in Russia and China. Five nations have developed medium-range missiles over the same period - China, India, Iran, North Korea and Pakistan...
...criminality of this regime was shrunk down to a mere atrocity involving 142 people,” Makiya said...
...need to dry-clean your tuxes, George and Denzel. Thanks to the Hollywood writers' strike, Sunday's Golden Globe Awards has shrunk from the usual celebrity bacchanal of red carpet, dinner, ceremony and after-parties to a one-hour news conference broadcast on NBC. The highly-rated Globes is the first awards show to fall victim to the strike, and February's Academy Awards may be next...
...even some fellow conservatives question the wisdom of the $22 billion in tax cuts passed last July when - as Sarkozy himself acknowledged last month - "the coffers are empty". Little wonder, then, that as displeasure over Sarkozy's glitzy private life has grown, both approval and confidence indices have shrunk. Just 34% of respondents now believe Sarkozy is capable of remedying slumping purchasing power...