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Ever looked out the window on a cold, wet day and dreamed of relocating to a gentler clime, where the sun smiles brightly, exotic flora perfume the air and the prices are forgiving? Tahir Shah did, and the result is The Caliph's House, a wry, energetic account of how the travel writer moved his pregnant wife, Rachana, and young daughter, Ariane, from London to Morocco, which he knew from childhood vacations. Think you've heard this all before, perhaps in Peter Mayle's best-selling A Year in Provence and its sequels, or Frances Mayes' tales of Tuscan transplantation...
...blame? The rain, apparently. The morning of the October 2005 testing was so wet that the answer sheets expanded, which meant they misaligned with the scoring scanners. Because the whole process is mechanized, nobody noticed until late December, when two students asked to have their tests rescored by hand (for a fee), which took about a month. Those misscored tests led to the rechecking of the entire year's tests--which was not finished until early March...
...there's an edge to Gulpilil's laugh, there's good reason. Shot in a crocodile-infested lagoon just after last year's wet season, Ten Canoes was as thrilling in the making as it is on screen (its filming will be the subject of an SBS documentary, Eighteen Canoes, to be aired close to the film's Australian release in June). For up to seven hours a day, director and crew would wade through thick swamp, with crocodile spotters on platforms above. "It really was the leeches getting you from the waist down; mosquitoes from above the waist," says...
...Mahmoud Abbas, high walled and with enough guards to protect Fort Knox. Next: the residence of Ismail Haniya, the newly designated Prime Minister. Haniya, 43, insists on living at his family home?in a Gaza slum, where the lanes are crisscrossed with Hamas' Islamic green flags and clotheslines of wet laundry. There are no gunmen outside Haniya's simple, whitewashed house...
...solar system suddenly appears to be a surprisingly wet place, according to new findings by the Cassini space probe orbiting Saturn. Last week NASA released images of water-crystal geysers spouting from Saturn's bright-white moon Enceladus. The water probably comes from shallowly buried deposits, warmed by gravitational pulses from Saturn itself and various passing moons. Cassini also discovered carbon-based molecules in the vicinity of Enceladus. Water, warmth and carbon are key ingredients in the recipe for life. Whether Enceladus does--or even could--harbor biology is one more thing for the hearty Cassini to investigate...