Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...posts of President, Prime Minister, Defense and Foreign Minister. He will need to muster all the support he can to solve Afghanistan's many problems, which include a three-year drought that has claimed more than 20,000 lives. The country is noted for its harsh landscape (barren deserts interspersed with rugged mountains), wretched poverty (per capita annual income is $88), and widespread disease (half of all children die before the age of five). Kabul is also something of a hash haven for hippies from the U.S. and Europe. Narcotics are sold openly...
Warm Earth. Geological evidence indicates that over most of its history, the earth was a far warmer place than it has been for the past 2,000,000 years. Humidity and temperatures were higher, there was more cloud cover, and barren zones with little vegetation were more common. If the banked-fires theory is correct, the relatively cooler recent period, including short-term "ice ages," might indicate that the sun's core is now being mixed, and may return to its normal output in about 4,000,000 years. Cameron estimates that such mixing events may be separated...
...movie claps for a world which their own situation has rendered irrelevant. It is finally a highly conservative applause. For the message that romanticizes the female rebel, but balks before the women's rebellion, is anathema to any committed feminist. It feeds nothing but a counter-revolutionary fervor, one barren of relevance, one that lowers rather than raises consciousness...
...Texas Bogdanovich creates characters who set out to realize their wildest dreams, whether they be beautiful women or perfect con-games. They don't realize them, but in the process achieve a personal authenticity more important than their dreams. What good is a bulging wallet anyway? They ramble across barren countryside, hands in their pockets, eyes to the ground, finding what they never looked for, contented all the same. He breaks down their myths, without making anybody lose...
Quemoy was once a barren outpost, but Chiang Kai-shek is said to have decreed in 1951: "Make it green." So the Nationalists have planted 70 million seedling trees, mostly Australian pine. They have since added bananas, mangoes, pears and apples. There are fields of corn and sorghum that help to make the island's 62,000 civilian inhabitants self-sufficient. The island even has a frail industrial base, a pottery plant and a liquor distillery. "For the soldiers, we have a lot of peanut candy shops and billiard parlors," a guide remarks...