Word: desertic
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...surge into the Gulf of California, depositing ruddy-colored silt that fanned out into a broad delta of new land at its mouth, hardly ever makes it to the sea anymore. The once mighty Colorado fizzles into a trickle, its last traces evaporating in the heat of the Mexican desert...
...dawn in the West, where rugged individualists have traditionally cocked a snoot at natural restrictions, rolled up their sleeves and hacked or drilled the world of their dreams out of the wilderness. Something in the Western temperament strives mightily to deny that much of the region is a desert -- witness the tropical extravagance of Beverly Hills, the emerald golf courses of Palm Springs, the ubiquitous swimming pools throughout the West...
...water employed by Western farmers: the practice of irrigating fields by flooding them, thus allowing much of the water to run off the fields or bake off in the heat; the production of "thirsty" crops like rice and cotton in areas only inches of water away from being desert...
...West European governments have been out front in meeting the challenge. In the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm, the leaders of France and Britain nudged Bush into establishing sanctuaries for the Kurds. The Ukraine, which is untying many of its bonds to Moscow, finds Paris and Rome more supportive than Washington. In their attempt to defuse the Yugoslav crisis, the Europeans did their share of flailing around. But they still seemed a bit more responsive to the Slovenes than the U.S initially did. The explanation goes beyond geographical proximity and relates to the transformation of the continent itself...
...Stonewall Jackson, who taught there from 1851 to 1861. "We're not talking about whether there is a role for single-sex education," says Vargyas. "The real question is, Can the brother rats have male bonding with tax money from the state of Virginia?" In the wake of Operation Desert Storm, in which women died alongside men for their country, Judge Kiser's ruling seems rather jarring -- especially since female taxpayers help pay for V.M.I.'s different drummer...