Word: drought
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...executed and Mulugeta himself spent nine years in jail before being released to 20 years of exile in London. But he is convinced the new millennium will restore Ethiopia and the day will soon arrive when Ethiopians no longer need outside assistance. "Nobody denies we have had famines and drought," he says. "We have been through that. We feel it in our bones. But we have picked up the pieces. The third millennium will be a re-birth for Ethiopia." And something to achieve without...
...winds, drought and soaring temperatures has been blamed for more than 3,000 forest fires this year. But this week alone, a rash of deadly and uncontrollable wildfires raced through the nation, swallowing thousands of acres of scrubland in the Peloponnese - even the sacred grounds of the ancient site of the birthplace of the Olympic Games, Olympia. Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis declared a nationwide state of emergency. More controversially, the Prime Minister suggested that sabotage was behind the blazes. "So many fires, breaking out simultaneously in so many places can not be a coincidence," he said in a nationally televised...
...Sladek, who grows soybeans and corn on his farm in Iowa City, where scattered showers and thunderstorms are forecast through the weekend. Driving back from meetings in Missouri earlier this week, Sladek recalls looking out at corn and soybean fields that "were in horrible condition" because of the drought. "You come up to our area," he says, "and we're having one of the best crops ever. The rain definitely helped. But," he adds with a reference to news of the rain's onslaught, "it's a year of real extremes...
...South Dakota and Wisconsin have declared states of emergency for parts of their states. Yet, the Midwestern storm's impact remains uneven: Nearly one-quarter of Minnesota's counties, most in the north and central part of the state, have been designated federal agricultural disaster areas mainly because of drought conditions...
Meanwhile, Dan Luna, a meteorologist and hydrologist in the National Weather Service's Chanhassen, Minn., office, says up to 7 inches of rain may fall in parts of the region this weekend. That puts some farmers in a tenuous position. First, Keith Sexton feared the summer drought would reduce his corn crops at his farm near Fort Dodge, Iowa, in the north-central part of the state. So far, the rains have been a blessing: He's expecting to yield about 165 bushels of corn per acre, and about 50 bushels of soybeans per acre - average to above-average...