Word: drought
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...Lanre Kalejaiye, 22, the answer was to sidestep the job drought by packing up and hitting the road. After graduating from Illinois State a year ago, he moved from employment-parched Chicago to Des Moines, Iowa, where he took a position as an underwriter at Allied Insurance. He loves the job and was pleasantly surprised that Des Moines is less a "farm town" than "a small Chicago." For actuary Ronen Twiss, 33, of Teaneck, N.J., the answer became clear when he was laid off during an industry nosedive...
...dousing of the Southern California wildfires has hardly ended the risk to U.S. forests. Years of drought and insect epidemics have also left millions of dead and dying trees across the Southeast. An infestation of the southern pine beetle that began in 1999 has killed a million acres of pine trees from Virginia to Alabama. Those dead trees--most either still standing or cut down and left to decay--are a potential tinderbox. A wetter, more humid climate makes a California-size conflagration unlikely. Still, there are dangers...
...time of maximum danger. That's when hot, dry winds--the infamous Santa Anas--barrel out of the desert, driving small blazes (set in this case by a lost hunter and suspected arsonists) to savage frenzy. Making matters worse this time was the one-two punch of a multiyear drought (which weakened millions of trees) and a massive bark-beetle infestation (which killed off many of them). The Federal Government had just denied the state's request for more funding to remove dead trees when the fires hit. In a matter of days, 14,000 fire fighters found themselves arrayed...
CALIFORNIA FIRES How drought, development and winds ignited a disaster...
...little more than 24 hours after his Goan pool party, Mallya takes the podium before a crowd in Kolar, a poor, drought-ravaged region of Karnataka. He's exchanged the heavy diamond studs for simple gold earrings and is decked out in the chaste all-white kurta and pajama of a typical Indian politician. "God has given me everything," Mallya tells the audience. "Money, big houses, fame. I want nothing more-except the chance to serve you." The crowd listens politely and begins to drift away-until the techno music starts to pound. A green laser beam projects images...