Word: drought
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...crisis well before the Sept. 11 attacks raised the prospect of U.S. military reprisals. After 23 years of war, Afghans are desperately poor?per capita GDP is estimated at $800, illiteracy is more than 70% and life expectancy for males is just under 47 years. The country has suffered drought for three years, food supplies have almost been exhausted and, under the Taliban, the economy has been reduced to little more than subsistence farming and smuggling...
...Ibrahim, a veteran of the mujahedin struggle against the Soviets from 1979-89, has a small farm at the base of the mountains in Nangarhar. He used to harvest wheat and corn and grow walnuts, apricots and grapes on his land. But since the onset of drought, he hasn't been able to grow enough to live on, so he came to Karkhla. He is not officially registered as a refugee and has no ID papers, but the Pakistani police leave people like him alone as long as they don't try to make their way to a major city...
Westfall, whose six goals last season were second on the team only to Yenne’s 11, has yet to score this year outside of a penalty kick in the season opener. She had a golden chance to break that drought on a setup deep in the box, but with little time to react, she powered the ball straight into Thomas’ hands...
...with shorter ones throughout the collection. The longer pieces occasionally verge on the scope of epic poetry with their descriptions of sweeping narratives, and the shorter pieces, some consisting of only four or five lines, are usually terse, biting commentary. Common sentiment is promptly rejected in “Drought Dust on the Crockery,” in a mere five lines of verse, “Things were not better / when I was young: / things were poorer and harsher, / drought dust on the crockery,/ and I was young...
...home. The winning goal was driven home by senior Ted Papadopoulos, while freshman Steve Reuter scored his first collegiate goal. Junior captain Liam Hoben rounded out the scoring for Cornell with a 40-yard free kick that bounced into the goal. The upset against Penn State ended a scoring drought for Cornell that lasted three games...