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Thirty miles away in the city of Durango (pop. 15,000) at El Patio Bar & Grill, misting machines spray diners to keep them cool. Lawns are lush, and the golf course has fairways greener than fresh limes. But according to the widely used Palmer monthly drought index, the region around Durango is suffering the worst drought in the U.S. In June the Missionary Ridge fire, northeast of town, burned 70,000 acres. Only 2.86 in. of rain have fallen all year. And Durango, which since 1877 has had first rights to the water that flows down the Florida River...
CANCER CLUSTER Women on New York's Long Island face a breast-cancer risk 30% higher than the national average. Activists blamed pesticides that farmers used to spray on potatoes and other crops, but a seven-year, $8 million government-ordered study found no link--at least to DDT (banned in 1972). The jury is still out on the pesticides now in use. --By David Bjerklie...
...previews; newspaper columnists are virtually ordering readers to get tickets before it's too late; and Bloomingdale's is getting set to open Hairspray-inspired boutiques in five of its stores nationwide. The shops will sell '60s-era clothes (including plus sizes), cosmetics, wigs and even (natch) hair spray. They'll almost certainly do better than Bloomie's last Broadway tie-in: a boutique featuring clothes from the flop musical Sweet Smell of Success...
...beyond Bolivia's borders. Next door in Peru, irate coca farmers have successfully pressured the government to suspend eradication. In Colombia, the coca crop has grown fivefold in five years, to more than 400,000 acres, despite almost $1 billion in U.S. eradication funds. Authorities now say they will spray only "industrial-size" coca fields and not those of smaller farmers, who are, of course, the voters. If Morales can thwart the U.S. in Bolivia--South America's poorest nation but Washington's eradication showcase--it means the elimination effort has been a washout...
...MATERIAL Sometimes keeping an enemy down but not out is good enough. The Southwest Research Institute in Texas has created a sprayable antitraction gel for the Marines that is so slippery it is impossible to drive or even walk on it; one researcher describes it as "liquid ball bearings." Spray the stuff on a door handle, and it becomes too slippery to turn. The antitraction gel is mostly water, so it dries up in about 12 hours. It is also nontoxic and biodegradable...