Word: dammed
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...scientists who came up with the idea, says that the balls reduced the mud's flow temporarily. But the project was abandoned last March when a new government team took over management of the site. More recently, a Japanese team proposed building a 130-ft.-high (40 m high) dam to contain the mud. Scientists familiar with Lusi have dismissed that idea. Because the ground beneath the caldera is still sinking, a heavy concrete dam would likely rupture...
...Still, the health workers of Wantugu are gradually seeing the results of their work. An increasing number of people pay attention to whether their drinking water has been filtered, and rather than wading into Wantugu's dam and potentially re-contaminating the water, some women stand on stones at the water's edge as they fetch. At one point the most endemic community in Ghana, Wantugu has experienced a large reduction in Guinea worm cases recently, from 414 cases in 2006 to 193 cases in 2007. Says Naporow: "Last year at this time we would do case searches and still...
...Tamils, which has killed some 70,000 people since 1983, merely settled to a low simmer, with hundreds dying in skirmishes over the years and full-fledged battles breaking out in 2006 and continuing into 2007. But the abandonment of a political solution has burst whatever remained of the dam that held Sri Lanka's bloodshed in check. In the first days of this new year, fighting has killed more than 150 combatants on both sides, including the Tigers' head of military intelligence. On Jan. 8, a roadside bomb outside Colombo killed D.M. Dassanayake, Sri Lanka's Minister for Nation...
...same way that American rappers react to urban poverty and strife, the Palestinians react to the poverty in the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. DAM's signature tune "Meen Irhabi" ("Who's The Terrorist"), sparks the same sentiments as songs by Mos Def and Talib Kweli. Other artists like Gaza's Palestinian Rappers and Egypt's Arabian Knightz help bolster the popularity of the music...
...seen as one of the gifts of African-American culture to the world's creative landscape. Rhyme artists like DAM and others spent years listening to their favorite rappers, dressing like them and emulating their beats. Now they want to have the same kind of global impact. "We know about Afro Americans through hip hop," Suheil Nafar said. "So all the world will know about Palestine through...