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Matthiessen in Paris
IN THE WINTER OF 1953 the young writer Peter Matthiessen came to the edge of a crisis. He and his wife, Patsy, who was also an aspiring writer, were living in Paris. Patsy was eight months pregnant with their second child, the first, named Thomas, having died within hours of his premature birth the year before.
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A Writer’s Controversial Past That Will Not Die
Peter Matthiessen’s nephew recalls both his uncle’s career as a writer and his experience as an operative for the C.I.A.
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The Many Droughts of California
Morro Bay has municipal wells as backup, and a desalination plant to filter brackish groundwater. The surface water for the big farms and dairy operations in the Central Valley is first transported from mountain reservoirs to the delta region, where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers meet the fingers of San Francisco's East Bay.
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The Many Droughts Of California
CALIFORNIA has only two seasons, rainy and dry. In March, when the rains stop--assuming they have begun--we must forget about precipitation for at least six months. The rainfall determines our mood for the summer and fall. Where I live, on the Central...
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The Many Droughts of California
If the sunny days continue, the state's sunny temperament may not.
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A pathway to peace
As it snakes its way through the Judean wilderness, the Kidron comes to Mar Saba, a spectacular monastery slung upon a cliff. Orthodox Christian prayers have been chanted there every day for some 1,400 years. The monastery and its domes and chapels are protected on one side by stone walls and on the other by the deep gorge of the Kidron, or Wadi Nar, as the Arabs call it. If you descend the innumerable steps to the fast-flowing Kidron Stream, a vile smell rises to meet you. The flow is raw sewage from Jerusalem, coursing at a rate of 8 to 10 million gallons a day. Over the last six years, an Israeli lawyer named Richard Laster -- a professor at Hebrew University -- has laid the foundation for a solution. Heading a team of Israeli and Palestinian officials and academics, Mr. Laster produced the Kidron Master Plan. The group proposes diverting the wastewater from the valley and constructing a sewage treatment plant in Ubeidiya. The plant would be paid for largely by international development agencies but jointly owned and operated by Israelis and Palestinians. The managers would sell the treated wastewater for local agricultural use, and Ubeidiya would get a modern landfill for its trash. While the environment healed, a new park and tourist trail would link Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ubeidiya and the Mar Saba monastery. The Kidron would be, in Mr. Laster's words, \"a platform for peace.\"
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In a Polluted Stream, A Pathway to Peace
PEACE talks are under way again in Jerusalem. If the past is any guide, the two sides are stymied over difficult issues like settlements and borders. The negotiators badly need a new approach, and one is right beneath their feet, in the Kidron Valley, the deep ravine...
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