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...people in San Francisco drew busloads of photo-snapping foreign tourists to their refugee camp in front of city hall. There, the visitors found a second city of cardboard condos, clogged with the traffic of shopping carts through makeshift living rooms, outfitted with easy chairs and dresser drawers. The waterless fountain steamed with stale urine; a sun-scorched lawn sprouted cigarette butts...
...stores in the basement. The Vintage Restaurant and A Wine For All Reasons, suffered the most substantial property losses. Cambridge Patrolman James Scott said last night. Banker Real Estate and Clivus Multrum, a manufacturer of waterless toilets, incurred smaller, but also significant, damages...
Herbert, a former West Coast newspaperman, set the science-fiction world on its antenna in 1965 with the publication of Dune, an involved and resonant adventure saga of how human civilization was reborn in a desert. Set on the waterless planet of Arrakis, or Dune, the book introduced a hero whose ancestry went back to the legendary Greek House of Atreus. Paul Atreides had something for everyone. He was part Odysseus, part Jesus and part Muhammad. His followers were a desert people forced by circumstances into a mystical and practical awareness of their ecosystem...
...wait more than 30 years to decide that the barren, waterless island is "sacred"? And what would they do with it? Return to human sacrifices, beginning with the U.S. military...
Mandatory rationing now affects 68 California cities and towns, including Los Angeles. Backed up by voluntary measures, consumption fell 23% in L.A. alone in July. Some homeowners are installing waterless toilets, which use a mineral-oil base that is constantly recycled and filtered through a 500-gal. waste tank under the house; every year a truck pumps out the refuse. Others have attached fiberglass tanks full of compressed air to cut down on the number of gallons of water required to flush a toilet. People are also affixing gadgets to their showers and faucets to decrease the flow. Many California...