Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the Safwan refugees, news of the aid met with mixed emotions. Many of the better-educated refugees are wary about moving to what could become a permanent camp in the Saudi desert. Still, as a Baghdad professor put it, "Any country in the world is better than Iraq...
...founder and director of the Green Belt Movement, a 14-year-old tree-planting project staffed primarily by women. The internationally acclaimed movement, which has spread to a dozen African nations, has planted 10 million trees. The goal: to counter rampant tree clearing and the advance of the African desert, which contribute to poverty and hunger. To date, 50,000 Kenyan women have worked in 1,500 GBM nurseries, earning 4 cents for each tree they tend; funds come from benefactors on four continents...
Beijing's experts have secretly built a nuclear reactor that is now nearing completion in the Algerian desert, American officials say. U.S. intelligence has also learned that China has sent Pakistan parts for its M-11 missile system, which can propel an 1,100-lb. warhead 180 miles, and is negotiating the sale to Syria of its M-9 missile, with a range of 375 miles. With the Chinese missiles, Pakistan could target major cities and military installations in India, and Syria could put all of Israel under threat...
...technology is called CD-ROM, for compact-disc read-only memory, and the disc can be "played," with the help of an attachment costing $400 to $900, on most personal computers. The TIME newsdisc, titled Desert Storm -- The War in the Persian Gulf, will include TIME stories and charts, scores of unpublished photographs, sound recorded from radio and TV, and files from our correspondents in the field. Users can call up different pieces of information at the click of a mouse. Says executive editor Dick Duncan: "It gives the reader-viewer a first raw cut of history...
Before last August, many Americans derided Bush as a tentative wimp and an uninspiring leader. But in the light of Desert Storm--the very name evokes visions of quick triumph--the nation praised the president for his decisive reaction to Iraqi aggression...