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Ready for a change from the urban music scene? Check out the Jazz Ball at Crane's Castle in Ipswich, Ma. tonight. Kick back and listen to the Ritz play on the expansive lawn of plumbing magnate Thomas Crane's beachfront estate on the North Shore. Tickets are $20 and $25 for reserved seating. Call 358-7774 for more details...
...farmers could freely sell or lease their water rights, profit motives would provide a powerful incentive for conservation. In Arizona, where such "water ranching" is widespread, farmers are drawing top dollar and, in the words of former Governor Bruce Babbitt, "retiring to beachfront condos in La Jolla ((Calif.)) to raise martinis instead of alfalfa." If water rights were widely traded, proponents say, cities and factories could assure their needs for posterity. Agriculture would still receive four-fifths of the West's water and would thrive, despite the increased costs...
...average worker. The money has been used to repair roads, complete the airport and build a bright pink mental institution to replace the one accidentally destroyed by American bombs. But impatience abounds. "We should have moved much faster than we have," says a waiter at a near empty beachfront hotel. "Except for the airport, I haven't seen much improvement...
...Real estate prices would finally go down. Except for Nevada beachfront, of course...
...With the added tides and storms, the effects were catastrophic. Thomas Terich, a professor of geography at Western Washington University, warns that even a slight permanent rise in the average sea level could wreak worse havoc. Says he: "The sites with the highest value -- the sandspits and low beachfront -- are going to be severely threatened...