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...casual visitor, the streets of Khotan now seem back to normal. The bazaar is open every morning, selling everything from roast lamb and athletic shoes to handwoven local carpets and the famous local white jade. But the almost exclusively Chinese traders whose small shops line the streets between the large People's Liberation Army base and Unity Square are evasive when asked about relations between the races and the events of March 23, after which many of these shops stayed closed for days. One young woman from Sichuan province says it is getting dark outside and she must close...
...first state visit by a French president to Britain in more than a decade. But the visitor seemed to feel quite at home in a summit between British and French leaders in London Thursday. The huddle took place at a soccer stadium belonging to Arsenal, a high-flying London club that owes much of its success to a coach and half dozen players who are French. When France's President Nicolas Sarkozy took to the turf for photos with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, it was Sarkozy who looked keenest for a kick about, back-heeling a ball toward...
...sprawling, 250-sq.-mi. (647 sq km) reservoir, indicating the old high-water mark--now left nakedly exposed 100 ft. up. You can look at the docks that have been moved repeatedly, chasing the receding lake. Or you can simply read a line graph at the reservoir's visitor center, which tracks the water elevation of Lake Mead since it was created by the construction of the Hoover Dam in 1935. After years of relative stability, starting in 2000 the graph resembles the record of a stock-market crash. The visitor center's chart stops...
...river was at an unusually high level.) Pat Mulroy, the powerful head of the snwa, says Las Vegas has worked hard to conserve water, paying residents to replace thirsty lawns with desert-appropriate landscaping. The city's overall water use has dropped since 2002, even as population and visitor numbers have continued to rise, and Mulroy thinks Las Vegas still has room--and water--to develop smartly. "It's not whether you grow but how you grow," she says...
...requires a certain distance, and distance easily slides into remoteness. Sitting on a tractor in Texas on March 4, he didn't look as out of place as Michael Dukakis in a tank - but he did seem like a tourist getting his picture taken with a longhorn cow, a visitor to the hinterland. He badly needs to get down, get gritty, sweat a little, show that he is willing to scuff his shoes in pursuit of the nomination. In most cases, you don't achieve the presidency without surviving a near-death moment - and, if nothing else, Clinton's victories...