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...gets away. Soil experts are spraying plants with anti-transpirant chemicals, usually fatty acids, to reduce the loss of water from leaves. Because more than half of most irrigation water evaporates or is absorbed by the soil before it reaches its destination, Israeli farmers are encouraged to apply a wax coating to their ditches to form a barrier against absorption. Like the ancient Nabataeans who once cultivated the desert, the Israelis also practice "runoff farming." But the Nabataeans used wadi beds as catch basins; the Israelis cut contoured strips and seal alternating strips with modern, petroleum-based chemicals. Water...
...Wax Crayons & Glue. The records show that a healthy man can survive ten days without water (in cool climates), several weeks without solid food (in warm ones), 243 hours without sleep. He can endure air temperatures of 212° (for about an hour), water temperatures of 41° (for about half an hour...
...make an S O S sign, dipped a tire in engine oil to serve as a signal fire, dismounted the car mirror to flash distress signals at passing planes, set out their hubcaps to catch the morning dew. They smeared lipstick on sunburn blisters and swollen lips, discovered some wax crayons and a pot of glue (made from milk products) among their luggage and fed them to the children. They cooled their faces with urine-soaked clothes, and buried themselves neck-deep in sand to escape the scorching air. They had just abandoned hope when a rescue party arrived...
...stories of mileage, speed, and prices offered (top price on record is $6,000 for a two-door Phaeton). But the moment of truth is the judging. After a day's parade through Detroit and on across the border into Windsor, Ont., the owners took their rags and wax and polished up their beauties for the final day. Explains George De Angelis, a co-chairman of the club: "The first round is to separate the men from the boys. A car that has a 6:00 x 16 wheel instead
...bronze surfaces are intricately designed for the play of light-wound copper bracelets, brazen armor and engraved rosette backgrounds, which set off the bold, stubby torsos of the figures. Most remarkable was the high level of skill displayed in employing the complex craft of casting with the lost-wax process. Descendants of the great smiths of Benin still revere Igue-igha, who introduced the art of casting into their land, possibly learnt from the Arabs in the late 13th century. Benin's smiths developed casting to the point where plaques as thin as one-eighth of an inch were...