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One of the Greek's ancient myths is about a man named Tantalus. Tantalus was the intimate friend of Zeus, who admitted him to Olympian banquets where the gods would feast on nectar and ambrosia. In time Tantalus betrayed Zeus's secrets and stole the divine food to share with his mortal friends. For his…

It might sound like an oxymoron, but scientists say they have created a way to save energy during the production of food, drugs, and other items using “dry water.” The material looks like powdered sugar and contains 95 percent “wet water”, but the liquid is encased by a sandy silica coating. Scientists…

My wife left for a a bit over a week to help her mother. While she was gone, I let her plant die. When she came home she said, "How sad, the porr thing died only inches from water." You see the plant was sitting right next to the kitchen sink. The problem was that it needed someone to give it the drink…

THIRST A British hotel operator who wrote to a client explaining why she could not have a free glass of water has been showered with bad publicity in connection with the incident. Shelly Burchell was a guest at the Atlantic Hotel in southwest England. She wrote a letter to managing director Anthony Cobley…

In his seventeenth-century devotional classic, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, William Law described a thirsty man who kept holding up one empty cup after another to his lips. No matter how beautiful the cups were, Law observed, and no matter how glittery and golden they seemed, the poor man…

But thank God for those who have a burning and blistering thirst and are willing to pay any price to satisfy it. We should be like the little girl who asked her mother for a drink of water three times in one night. Finally the mother said in an exasperated tone, “If you ask for water one more time, I…