However, this seemingly dry and arid region in southern Israel is now home to a burgeoning wine route, thanks to a group of pioneering 21st-century farmers and their use of computerized drip irrigation.

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The body, however, remains ensconced in dry ice (replenished each month by a hired local now known as Bo the Iceman) in a shed donated by local businesses, while the family financially maintains the body and its upkeep from afar.

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Even this tough plant requires some help under the unusually dry weather this year, however.

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The remedies, however, are still alarming: hemlock to dry up milk when weaning, hare's brain to be rubbed on teething gums.

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However, the chicken was bland and a little dry.

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Environmentalists, however, say that the dams will make lakes in Kenya run dry.

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Dr Buckley's data, however, suggest another possibility that Angkor's canals and reservoirs ran dry and that the invasions were therefore a consequence of decline, rather than its cause.

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However, studies have shown that supplements and a healthy diet can slow the progression of dry macular degeneration.

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