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...some of the country's northern areas are among the most arid in the world, receiving practically no rainfall despite their moisture-laden atmosphere. Observing that the fog collected into drops on nylon lines, scientists at the Northern University of Chile in Antofagasta constructed wood and metal frames strung with vertical strands of nylon and set them up on nearby hills. As the fog was blown through the frames by the evening wind, it formed water droplets on the strands that dripped into receptacles below, quickly filling them. With enough frames, the Chilean scientists believe they can supply...
...questing spirit of Mahler's music, no doubt explains its special meaning for today's college-age youth, who are among the biggest buyers of Mahler recordings, and who made up about 40% of the Vienna Festival audience. As Conductor Steinberg puts it: "Mahler was a high-strung genius who speaks today to a high-strung generation...
Inevitably, the fact that so many Arab planes were trapped in their parking area?strung out wingtip to wingtip?suggested that Israel must have struck the first blow. The stunned Arabs, of course, said that it had, and Moscow angrily concurred. But, as Israel first told it, the Jewish jets scrambled only after early-warning radar picked up several waves of Arab planes headed straight for Israel. At the same time, a massive Egyptian armored column was reported to be rolling out of its base at El Arish and steering toward the Israeli border...
...remainder of the field will not be definite until today, but they will end up strung out behind Damascus. Cool Reception, last year's champion two-year-old in Canada, has the best record of these others, looks like he can go a distance, and may be closest to the Preakness winner at the Wire...
...Mann, a nightclub comic with a Kosher dill nose, once had to sit patiently while makeup men reworked his uneven toes, then ran up and down a steep hill 20 times to celebrate the joys of Ting foot deodorant. During practice takes for one commercial, shmoo-shaped Peter Gumeny strung a hammock between two wooden blocks stuck to the walls with Weldwood Contact Glue, slipped his 240 lbs. into the sling, and then lay helplessly as the blocks separated and he went crashing to the floor...