Word: aridity
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...GOSSIP OF THE WEEK: Raquel E. Arid ’04 is constantly frustrated by right-handers’ occupation of all the left-handed desks in Emerson 105. “The desks are less comfortable for them. Why do the righties sit there? Arrgh!”...Does anyone have a quarter? Will C. Benstein ’03 wants to get a Coke...
...GOSSIP OF THE WEEK: Will C. Benstein ’03 still hasn’t unpacked most of his belongings. “Yeah, yeah. I’ll do it tomorrow,” he said...Raquel E. Arid ’05 was going to shop Government 1730, but the room was so full, she couldn’t get in. “I couldn’t hear a word the professor said,” she said. “Whatever?...
Mohandas Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani were the two most famous scions of the Modh Bania, a Hindu commercial caste based in the arid Saurashtra peninsula of India's western Gujarat state. The Mahatma idealized traditional village ways, passive resistance, and homespun cotton. Ambani, a billionaire industrialist, preached prosperity to a burgeoning Indian middle-class via a business empire built on polyester...
...world has ever seen wasn't snapped by a professional photographer but by a man of science, the former U.S. astronaut William Anders. Taken in December 1968 from Apollo 8 - the first manned vehicle in lunar orbit - the image is of the earth rising above the moon's arid, lifeless horizon. Revealing the planet for the first time as a pristine blue and white jewel in the black void of space, the picture became an instant classic, inspiring poets and becoming a symbol of the ecology movement. "It is truly the most beautiful photo ever taken," says Yann Arthus-Bertrand...
...wipe the splattered insects off the windscreen and vamoose in a cloud of dust. But from mid-July to the end of October, Eneabba undergoes a startling transformation into one of Australia's most impressive natural attractions. The spring rains trigger an outburst of wildflowers, which bedeck the usually arid landscape in yellows, pinks and whites. No fewer than nine national heritage reserves surround the town, each one a wonderland of the world's finest collections of flowering plants. Probably the most splendid is the unimaginatively named Reserve 29073, 10 km west of Eneabba, where carpets of everlastings (so called...