Word: waterer
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NATO may be bombing Belgrade back to the Stone Age and some Yugoslavian troops are feeling mutinous, but alliance predictions that President Milosevic is about to crack are probably premature. Belgrade's water reserves dropped to 8 percent Tuesday as NATO kept up its bombing campaign, and the city's residents are having to become accustomed to life without electricity. "Life in Serbian cities is getting very difficult," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic, "but people are not blaming Milosevic; they're blaming NATO. And even if they did blame Milosevic, there's not much they can do about...
...training for decades to take them on. He was worrying about global warming back in college, when it was still more a theory than a real threat. His interest in stabilizing post-apartheid South Africa has drawn him to the problems of goat farmers and ways of bringing clean water and solar power to remote villages. In 1994 he ordered the CIA to find out why countries fall apart. After feeding 2 million facts and figures from about 113 instances of national collapse into its computers, the intelligence agency came up with a startling answer: new democracies tend to fail...
Most important, the merger is now producing metal. In Graz, Austria, this month, Mercedes and Chrysler vehicles began rolling off the same assembly line--in auto manufacturing, this is akin to walking on water. The Graz plant originally made the Jeep Grand Cherokee. But when the merger talks began last year, Mercedes car chief Jurgen Hubbert spotted a golden opportunity to expand production of the new M-class suv without paying the exorbitant costs of a new factory. In an odd twist, Mercedes saves more than $70 million by shipping components from its plant in Tuscaloosa, Ala., back to Europe...
...ball, and a digital camera in its snout will track it. A remote control turns it left or right. Available at www.world.sony.com/robot/for $2,500, AIBO costs more than most purebreds. But it doesn't shed, can't dig holes in the yard and needs no food or water. Best of all, you never have to clean up after...
Showing slides and passing around pictures of his visit, Pryor said that the biggest problems facing the refugee camps at the moment are a lack of water and the potential for disease due to poor sanitation...