Word: wet
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...that signals relief for the drought-plagued region. Even so, says NOAA drought specialist Douglas LeComte, it's too early to proclaim the long dry spell completely over. Snow is still scant in the northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest, he notes, adding, "It will take more than one wet winter to refill the reservoirs along the Colorado River." --By J. Madeleine Nash
...foolish not only because it doesn't work, but because it tells the world that Filipinos are morons." CHRYSTALYNE GALAPON, Filipino store clerk, on Manila's plan to stop jaywalking by having a truck-mounted 2-m-by-3-m "wet flag" driven along the city's streets, soaking pedestrians who stray off the curb
...what does work? Guiliano, a size 6 and 112 lbs. dripping wet, sticks to simple, fresh ingredients, serves modest portions and savors every bite. "The main difference I see between here and France is that people here eat so much processed food," she says. "It's frightening what's in there." Guiliano herself eats lots of fruits, vegetables and fish. "Leeks and yogurt are my best weapons," she says. Not surprisingly, Guiliano, a director of champagne maker Veuve Clicquot, favors moderate wine drinking with meals...
...wet-n-wild kneepit...
...Birns' photographs can only travel by air. The two secure passage for the film on a 40-hour flight to San Francisco. LIFE holds the presses for 12 hours and sets up an ad hoc darkroom in the San Francisco airport. A charter pilot agrees to fly the wet negatives to fog-bound Chicago, where LIFE's photo editor has arrived from New York to pick them up. He selects the photos by using the window of his taxi as a light box and delivers them to the printer in time for the issue...