Word: barrens
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...begin and all those quilt panels and ribbons and T shirts will become relics or even flea-market collectibles. There was a debate recently over destroying some last sample of smallpox, contained in a laboratory. I wish I could visit the final AIDS molecule, cornered and shivering in some barren government crypt. No mercy...
...Friday, the day before the Yale and-Harvard varsity football teams faced off in Harvard Stadium surrounded by the fanfare of tailgates and band duals, a flock of hardy IM participants took to the barren, nameless fields (the J.V. soccer fields or the fields behind the Palmer Dixon tennis courts) to decide the nation's leader in IM aptitude...
...doors to their cells suddenly had been flung open, and across the world, diplomats were crossing their fingers. A Tutsi offensive had driven Hutu forces westward into Zaire, potentially forcing the Hutu militias to relinquish control of the bursting Mugunga refugee camp that has served as a barren purgatory to more than 1 million people, and as cover for thousands of militiamen hiding from their enemies. A significant exodus would greatly ease the need for the U.N. humanitarian and military intervention that has been hurriedly assembled over the past few days. Refugees said some Hutu troops had fired into...
...been derived from them throughout the centuries." Genesis chapter 12, as Visotzky was disagreeably reminded, seems to find Abraham allowing his wife to be taken into Pharaoh's harem both to ensure the couple safe passage through Egypt and "so that all may go well with me." Sarah, barren, offers her slave, Hagar, to Abraham as a kind of surrogate mother but when Hagar gets pregnant, Sarah becomes jealous and beats her (16). Lot sleeps with his daughters (19). Jacob embezzles from his brother (27). His sons, enraged at the rape of their sister, kill every man in a neighboring...
...soil into plumes of fine dust. Texas is the nation's leading cotton-growing state, but agronomists there predict that 50% of this year's crop could be lost, along with more than $200 million profit to farmers and producers. Prospects for the corn crop are just as barren. "Corn should be 8 ft. high by now," says Mark Miller, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University, "but even in the best fields, it is only 4 ft. high." And that scrawny crop could be imperiled. According to Joe Pena, also of Texas A&M, corn grown in drought...