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...danger is salt. Found in even the best irrigation water, salt is usually left behind as crops soak up moisture through their roots, and the residue filters into the underground water table. But in the San Joaquin Valley, shallow layers of impermeable clay act as a natural obstacle, and brackish water has been backing up, already rising to within 5 ft. of the surface over some 400,000 acres. Adding to this mineral buildup is more salt left by evaporation. Crop losses have reached an estimated $32 million a year. If the accumulation is left unchecked, the valley could turn...
...melange of life-styles is best viewed in the kaleidoscope of scenes each evening at sunset. Many Northern tourists stroll from the boutiques and galleries of renovated Duval Street to the Mallory Square dock to soak up the impromptu theater-jugglers, bands, ventriloquists, and an iguana man who lets children pet the iguanas he walks on a leash. As the sun disappears below the horizon, the crowd applauds. Tourists now outnumber the youths and leftover hippies who founded sunset watching on the dock as a communal mystical experience a decade ago. The easy movers are now more likely to spend...
...spokesman for Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy said yesterday the mayor is afraid the increased price of the project, which the MBTA's consulting engineers estimated would cost $50.3 million, would soak up funds that otherwise might have been available for further extension of the Red Line beyond Cambridge...
Third, create conditions for companies to earn, and guarantee them freedom from government intervention or expropriation. As Killeen puts it: "We don't have a class-struggle mentality or a soak-the-rich attitude because we haven't had many rich. But we're very much an ownership country. The vast majority of people own their own homes or farms." Ireland claims to be one of the few countries that guarantee the right to private property in their constitutions and really mean...
...sometimes unique in the problems of protocol and manners it presents. Example: the nude after-dinner soak in the host's hot tub, as its waters are roiled by a Jacuzzi. Californians manage to maintain a casual dignity rather well; the rules are fairly well established and usually observed. They start from the presumption that not everyone may be inclined to participate. Therefore neither the host nor hostess may be the first to strip, nor may they even suggest it. Rather, convention requires what seems to be a spontaneous impulse on the part of a guest, who ideally should...