Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California's semiarid desert climate, no one expects much moisture from May to October, but the months of December through March are generally rainy, with January the wettest. Not this season. From Oct. 1 through the beginning of February, only 5 in. of rain fell vs. an average of 28 in. for that period. Reservoirs are half full at best; some are empty. At Edwards Air Force Base, near Lancaster, pumping for groundwater has opened a half-mile-long, 12-ft.- deep, 4-ft.-wide crack close to a runway used by the space shuttles. Enough trees have died...
...tens of thousands of American troops employed in the Saudi desert and on ships in the Persian Gulf waited anxiously for more details...
...seriousness of war is belittled by the flag-waving and chants and most particularly by the persistent commodification of the battle. Shop windows display "Operation Desert Storm" shirts, badges and buttons. The hot new fashion statement includes American flag earnings and pins with little yellow ribbons tied around their poles...
Recently, some stores have begun to market Operation Desert Storm condoms...
That sign was recently displayed at a Students United for Desert Storm (SUDS) rally on the same grass where once walked Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of the immortal words "Whosoever would be a man must be a nonconformist...