Word: aridity
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...short term, some of the northern, industrialized countries may actually benefit. Canada, Russia and parts of the U.S. will for a time experience shorter winters and bumper harvests. But the already arid southwestern U.S. could become a permanent dust bowl, while Australia will see intensified droughts and agricultural decline throughout the country's populated south and east...
...which the plain rigidity of the inorganic world is a foil. Here, it is the women who are strong, not the city. Also receiving their fair share of attention in the main gallery are Clergue’s semi-abstractions of salt flats, marshes, and coastal areas. The arid earth in “Craquelures de Sel” resembles Aaron Siskind’s peeling posters, and the undulating reflections of reeds in “Roseaux, Le Marais d’Arles” hearken back to similar photographs by Harry Callahan. Still, these images are striking...
...Doctors in the city say the affliction, which affects newcomers like myself disproportionately, is sparked in part by the changing weather and the city's arid climate. But it is the city's heavy air pollution that seems to be the chief culprit in transforming what might be a seasonal irritation into something that can be truly frightening. For one thing, this cough simply won't go away. In my case it lasted for almost four weeks, often improving for a day or two only to return in full force. It's also scarily hard to control, even with medication...
...hour drive across the steppes - from the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. But when you finally arrive at Nukus, there are two surreal sights to behold. The first is the dried-up bed of the Aral Sea - once the world's fourth-largest lake, but now a hellishly arid [an error occurred while processing this directive] landscape of grounded fishing boats and sand. The second is the Savitsky Karakalpakstan State Art Museum, tel: (998-61) 222 2556. The few travelers who stumble upon it never fail to be stunned by the discovery. The museum is named after Igor Vitalyevich Savitsky...
...pitches--made in e-mails or other direct solicitations to independent marketers have helped XanGo pass $200 million in sales in 2005. The four-year-old company is just the latest big player in the country's $23.5 billion dietary-supplement trade--much of it based here in an arid stretch of Utah called the Wasatch Front...