This, allied to the fact that the Atlantic in mid-November is no place to be hanging around, with freezing water crashing all over the boats, makes the Transat one of the hardest races in the world.

BBC: Transat Jacques Vabre

Participants also ward off evil during the festival by bathing in flower-scented water, wearing five-colour silk, hanging plants such as moxa and calamus over their doors, and pasting paper cut-outs in their windows.

UNESCO: Culture

But now and again I would go out to the old swimming hole, the place everybody called the Twenty Two, and spend half an hour or so in the water, not really swimming so much as hanging there, suspended in the rumor of coolness that rose from the depths below.

NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy

The lesson here is to be careful who you are hanging out with the wrong people will continually pull you into hot water and everyone winds up getting cooked.

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But cotton is no longer king, water licences are more expensive than ever and Bourke, once again, is hanging in limbo.

ECONOMIST: A land of drought

The need to drill for oil in 5000 feet of water and 20, 000 feet below the ocean floor is a dramatic illustration of how the low hanging fruit are long gone and the lengths to which our addiction to oil will drive us.

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