Word: delta
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...Botswana's diamond wealth has fomented no coups or conflict, and the last assassination was in the 1960s when a tribal chief's brother shot his older sibling. Population growth is under control, and the country's schools, and its green tourism in the Okavango Delta, are the envy of the continent. While Botswana has one of the world's highest HIV/AIDS rates - an estimated 25% of adults between 15 and 49 are infected - it also has an unusually progressive program to deal with the disease. The contrast with neighboring Zimbabwe could not be more stark, as hundreds of thousands...
...about 5:52 am, the Boston Emergency Medical Services found Wells’ deceased body lying on the ground at 526 Beacon Street, the MIT headquarters of the Technology chapter of Delta Upsilon (DU) fraternity...
...scenes,” says Gemma Rodriguez, one of the conference’s graduate student organizers.With many difficulties still facing the African community, much of its contemporary art has a social and political message. Blier cites the environment—in particular the destruction of places like the Delta area of Nigeria—as an example of such an issue. “Artists are not just concerned with the creation of visually profound works of art, but with addressing salient issues that are important for them and for their communities,” she says. Blier emphasizes...
...refinery in Big Spring, Texas, which halted its 67,000-barrel-a-day output, and could shut the facilty for two months. And even before then a bitter wrangle between Venezuela's oil officials and ExxonMobil over a rich oil field, as well as rebel action in the Niger Delta, had raised fears that oil supplies could be seriously interrupted...
...with the sorority they choose. “It’s hard to describe, but you can just see a girl and kind of describe if they’re more of a Kappa, if they’re more of a Theta girl, or more of a Delta...