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...operations we've done for some of the endangered fish species did have an initial affect on our allocation earlier this year," says Paul Fujitani of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. "But in the past few months, our biggest problem is with the dryness." Protecting endangered species, he says, is simply "something...
...tradition is hard to break. And restoration isn't for everyone. Only a small minority of circumcised men report sensitivity loss and dryness. In fact, the National Health and Social Life survey by the University of Chicago found that sexual dysfunction is slightly more common in intact men. Still, for those cut men uncomfortable with their circumcisions but even more squeamish about tugging on or weighing down their penises, Canadian inventor Randy Tymkin has developed a foreskin substitute - a silky sheath that protects the penis and keeps it soft. It's called ManHood...
...struck by how big a role rivers have played in Australian literature. Kate Grenville's The Secret River, on which Michael Fitzgerald based his visit to the Hawkesbury, is only the latest work to refer to rivers. Your editor's letter was right in suggesting that the dryness of so much of the continent gives rivers a special significance. Every Australian knows Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River, but rivers also come up frequently in the poetry of Harry "Breaker" Morant. One of his best-known verses is At the River Crossing. Henry Lawson was another poet...
...Calcutta, and - except for a five-week break in 1959 - never abated. Although perpetually cheery in public, the Teresa of the letters lived in a state of deep and abiding spiritual pain. In more than 40 communications, many of which have never before been published, she bemoans the "dryness," "darkness," "loneliness" and "torture" she is undergoing. She compares the experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God. She is acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanor. "The smile," she writes...
...absence, it never lifted again. Five years after her Nobel, a Jesuit priest in the Calcutta province noted that "Mother came ... to speak about the excruciating night in her soul. It was not a passing phase but had gone on for years." A 1995 letter discussed her "spiritual dryness." She died...