Word: aridity
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...Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry, South Africa, sits in an arid valley among the mountains of KwaZulu-Natal. Occupying a dozen or so tin-roofed, low-slung buildings, the hospital serves its rural patients well: Women come to have babies, H.I.V. patients register to receive their medications, and those infected with tuberculosis check in for a chance to recover from an ancient scourge...
...hate Hemingway. He is both a virulent misogynist and an anti-Semite. His lauded Spartan prose style is choppy and arid. His books are a strain of simple verbal diarrhea. There is nothing to like about him. At least that’s what I said whenever Hemingway’s name was brought up until just about a month ago, when I read “The Sun Also Rises.” I had been in Paris for 6 weeks. All summer I had been walking past cafés where Hemingway drank himself into...
...battles on the basis of morality rather than ideology. Fighting to limit the influence of money in politics or performance-enhancing drugs in sports, attacking Democrats who opposed the surge in Iraq or Republican lobbyists who exploited Indian tribes, McCain tends to approach his pet issues not as arid policy disputes about which reasonable people can disagree but as emotionally pitched battles between good and evil, affairs of honor vs. the ignominy of disgrace. If it hasn't won him a lot of popularity contests with his colleagues, it has burnished his national reputation for being...
...shockingly common. WFP, the U.N. food-aid agency, reaches more people than any other humanitarian organization in the world. It plans this year to feed about 90 million in 78 countries; almost all of the recipients hover on the brink of starvation. Here in Karamoja, in Uganda's semi-arid northeast corner, food distribution is now a daily ritual. In its 45-year history, WFP has handled war, famine and just about every other kind of disaster, natural or made by man. But Karamoja is pretty typical. After years of drought, the soil is little more than sand. Goats...
...technical level, sight meets sound. WALL?E's animation, especially in scenes on Earth, has a photorealistic quality; it looks like a gorgeously arid, live-action waste dump. The appointments of the Axiom, exterior and interior, are as finely detailed as those in any Star Wars or Alien film. Even if the exploits of WALL?E and EVE don't take and break your heart, you'll be impressed by the graphic design...