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...nature's waste lots, ripe for occupation and improvement. Even the word desert implies "unoccupied." But despite the shortage of water and wide temperature fluctuations, deserts are the host of a wide variety of species, each of which has adapted in its way to life in a desert ecosystem. Couch's spadefoot toads can live underground for much of their lives, awaiting some moisture before they come up and breed. Saguaro cacti are able to suck up a ton of water from one rain shower and then do without more rain for a year. Sidewinder rattlesnakes move across dunes...
Mayne said he believes contemporary architecture is defined by a cleavage between aesthetically based interpretations—the way a building looks—and values based interpretations—what a project symbolizes and contributes. Mayne said he strives to couch his projects in the latter rubric...
...scandals go, a D-list Bollywood actor caught propositioning an unknown undercover reporter from an equally unknown TV channel isn't exactly Monica Lewinsky. Nevertheless, India was agog last week when upstart channel India TV broke what quickly became known as the "casting-couch scandal." In a Bombay hotel room rigged with hidden cameras, has-been screen villain Shakti Kapoor told what he thought was an aspiring young actress: "I want to make love to you. And if you want to come in this line [of business], you have to do what I am telling [you] to do." Kapoor then...
...hard to make a decent video game? Let?s face it, a lot of the software released these days in the name of electronic amusement isn?t worth the effort it takes to lie on your couch and mash a button. But there?s that rare sweet spot where graphics, game play and storytelling come together to make a game work. These games...
...endured, compared to the hellish pain of her wounds and being almost bombed by U.S. jets strafing nearby targets. Being 36 at the time, with a toughened hide, helped. "I'd dealt with a number of people who'd died in helicopter wrecks before," she says, sitting on a couch in her office, which is decorated with certificates from marathons she has run and photographs of her previous military units. Still, her capture left her with a sharpened sense of what might torment the young soldiers - many barely out of high school - lying in Landstuhl's wards...