Word: drought
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Yesterday's victory marks the first step on that journey towards ending an 82-year championship drought. The win also marks the first time this year the Sox have prevailed in a game started by someone other than Pedro Martinez...
...century; even the low end of that spectrum could set the stage for a lot of meteorological mischief. Among other things, the higher the temperature, the more rapidly moisture can evaporate from the earth's surface and condense as rain droplets in clouds, substantially increasing the risk of both drought and torrential rain. There could also be a rise in the number of severe storms, such as the tornado-spawning monsters that hit Texas last week...
...identical to those of the past century, the damage inflicted would be far worse. To appreciate what happens when vegetative cover is removed, one need look no further than the 1930s Dust Bowl in the U.S. and the 1970s famine in Africa's Sahel. In both cases, a meteorological drought was exacerbated by agricultural and pastoral practices that stripped land bare, exposing it to the not so tender mercies of sun and wind...
...churches use local languages and mix traditional African spiritual beliefs with Pentecostal-style worship, including the use of drums, guitars and charismatic preachers. They also address local problems--poverty, drought, corruption--and offer a sense of belonging that is rare in a continent whose politicians so often fail their people and where traditional social structures are coming apart...
...long-range missiles, and were helpless at first to contain the face-to-face hatreds of Bosnia and Kosovo. Then there was Rwanda and Zaire, where each new episode of civil war and ethnic bloodlust created a small city of refugees. In Sudan, the civil war was worsened by drought and the associated famine, which was coolly manipulated by the warring sides. In all those locations, the ones who didn't die along the road found themselves penned for long stretches in huge camps, where hunger, pneumonia, cholera and diphtheria claimed more lives every...