Word: barrenness
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...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...
...middle ground is a pretty barren place these days...
Sandwiched between hours of driving through cold and barren countryside, the men (3-0) took all nine matches from Cornell and the women (2-0) triumphed 8-1 as both Harvard teams remained undefeated...
These questions and more have tantalized astronomers for decades--and Mauna Kea is one of the few places where answers may finally be found. The mountain is dotted with white and silver observatory domes, sprouting like oversize mushrooms from the barren, rocky rubble that was once molten lava and, much later, a holy place of the native Hawaiian people. And although it's not obvious to the casual visitor, these domes conceal stargazing machines of unprecedented power...