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...history, water, or the lack of it, has determined the pace of development. Historian Walter Prescott Webb once called the Mountain West "virtually an oasis civilization," and ranchers formerly fought pitched battles to control water holes for their herds. As long ago as 1893, the explorer Major John Wesley Powell warned the First International Irrigation Conference in Los Angeles: "I tell you, gentlemen, you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation of water rights, for there is not sufficient water to supply the land." Today nearly every river in the West is either fully used or overused. Throughout...
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...Liquid Wrench voice and consume untold quantities of canned spinach. Shelley Duvall's role as Olive Oyl was not much easier. "I had shin splints for weeks from those size-14, quintuple-A boots," she groans. Not to mention anvil forearms from toting Swee' Pea (Wesley Ivan Hurt) around and neck strain from craning to Oylesque proportions. Toughest of all was stifling the giggles. Says Duvall: "Once we were in costume, we just laughed at each other...
...example, members of the huge (though declining) United Methodist Church, which began in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement, want clergy who are "open, accepting, self-critical, patient, participatory and exemplary." All are qualities involved with psychological jargon, interpersonal relationships and group dynamics. John Wesley, meet Dale Carnegie or Michael Murphy of Esalen...