Word: barrenly
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Hawaneen arrived at the Herat camp a month ago after selling his plow and even the tin roof off his house to pay for the journey. Now, in the barren, sand-blown camp, Hawaneen crouches against the wind and watches in dumb agony as a Muslim cleric lays the bony, starved corpse of his eight-year-old son on a plastic sheet spread on the ground and washes him for burial...
Some surpluses are welcome: Kutch has received more water in the past three weeks than in the previous two years. (There has been a drought since 1998.) In Anjar, I spot a group of urchins drinking bottled mineral water. Even the barren earth has turned bountiful: geologists report that the quake has created a new "river," a 100-km channel of fresh water from a subterranean lake is snaking its way across the rann. Hindu priests immediately pronounce this to be the Saraswati, the mythical holy river that disappeared into the ground thousands of years ago. Here and there, there...
...screening committee were some highly esteemed works: Hong Kong's In the Mood for Love, Iran's A Time for Drunken Horses, South Korea's Chunhyang, Sweden's Songs from the Second Floor and Thailand's 6ixtynin9. In their place are the Czech Republic's Divided We Fall (a barren couple named Mary and Joseph take in a Jewish refugee during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia) and Mexico's Amores Parros/Life's a Bitch (a car crash brings together five people from radically different backgrounds; sounds as if it should be called Traffic). But life will be a bitch only...
...final toll in the subcontinent's worst earthquake in 50 years could rise to 15,000 dead. Another 33,000 were injured, according to Gujarat officials. Villages near the quake's epicenter, a dry, barren region high above the Arabian Sea, were pulverized and all the more prostrate for their remoteness: help didn't get through until 24 hours after the quake struck. Ahmedabad, Gujarat's largest city with a population of 3.6 million people, and Bhuj, a walled city of 150,000 near Ground Zero, were hit hardest. In Bhuj, over 90% of the buildings were sledge-hammered...
...commerce. Hence many multinationals are hedging their bets. China operations may be moving to Shanghai, but companies like Coca-Cola and Philips have kept their formal Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. That too could change, however. Hong Kong, after all, was once no more than a piece of barren rock with no economic value whatsoever. And people in Shanghai are well aware that hard work and entrepreneurship can produce miracles...