Word: barren
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Darfur, a barren, mountainous land just below the Sahara in western Sudan, is the world's worst man-made disaster. In four years, according to the U.N., fighting has killed more than 200,000 people and made refugees of 2.5 million more. The conflict is typically characterized as genocide, waged by the Arab Janjaweed and their backers in the Sudanese government, against Darfur's black Africans. But what is often overlooked is that the roots of the conflict may have more to do with ecology than ethnicity. To live on the poor and arid soil of the Sahel--just south...
...Four years ago, a friend showed Liang Daxing a photograph of a traditional cloth pillow fashioned into a toy tiger. The image stirred Liang's memories of his time in China's barren, dirt-poor Northeast, where he was packed off for re-education during the terrible years of the Cultural Revolution. A master tailor, Liang, 59, was due to retire until he saw the photograph. It inspired him to hold onto his needle and thread, and delve into the old craft of making toys from spare cuts of fabric. Today, he sells the fruits of his labors from...
...Sure, the lack of goalposts on either end of the field left the grass behind the team logos in the football endzones ominously barren, but it wasn’t until just over midway through the first quarter of the Harvard men’s lacrosse team’s 9-6 win over Brown that the new locale’s capabilities really “shined...
...ride; I only want to make it clear that the organizations whose members were quoted in Tuesday’s article are members of a shrinking coalition of student organizations who have yet to take advantage of the resources that the SOCH offers. The assertion that the SOCH is barren or underutilized is empirically false: the space is used constantly by dozens of student groups. For any given week, the SOCH has at least as many student group reservations as most Yard buildings. Furthermore, bookings for student groups at the SOCH have more than doubled in the past few months...
...Harvard’s history—A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, would take the reins. While Lowell broke with the past in his love of the macho sport of football, he despised organized cheering. In a 1911 Crimson article, Lowell described the practice as “barren, poor, and meagre,” and “with less modulation, less means of expressing degrees and varieties of emotion of any kind than any other form of expression—with the possible exception of the fog-horn...