Word: drought
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...band, the Black Spirits, hit the charts with Africa, an album filled with driving dance beats and heady optimism about the future. For years, Zimbabwe did live up to its revolutionary promise. It was southern Africa's land of milk and honey - and maize and tobacco and beef. But drought and a botched land-reform program have decimated farming. Last week, a government report named prominent members of the ruling ZANU-PF, including Mugabe's sister and top officials, who had broken the "one man, one farm" rule for the redistribution of white-owned commercial farms. Zimbabweans had known this...
...plus side, Saudi Arabia, with 2.5 million bbl. a day in spare capacity, has promised to make up part of Iraq's shortfall. The U.S., Europe and the major industrialized countries of Asia also have access to substantial oil stocks to help them weather the likely drought. President Bush has given orders to top off America's 700 million--bbl. Strategic Petroleum Reserve--enough oil to meet U.S. needs for 36 days. That process is about 85% complete. The most probable scenario, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research institute in Washington...
...former herders like Bayarsakhan, the transition to city living has been wrenching. He grew up in Gobi-Altai province to the south, where his family had raised livestock for generations. Four summers ago, however, a severe drought was followed by an early frost, then a brutal winter with high winds. Mongolians have a name for this: the dzud. The historical norm has been roughly one dzud every half-decade, making for a tough season before more-manageable weather returns. But it's now happening for a fourth consecutive year. The dzud means less grass grows and animals can't fatten...
...Some of my neighbors lost their whole herd and had to leave the steppe," he says, stuffing his water pipe with tobacco while his wife feeds dung into the stove with her bare hand. Jampur can't conceive of following them to the city. He knows there was a drought this summer and heavy snowfall early in the winter?the hallmarks of another dzud?and his animals, he admits, already look thin. "But we've made it this far," he says. "So we can stick...
...Harvard succeeds in doing that, it may end a four-year drought and finally reach the Beanpot Championship. If that happens, it may end the second Monday in February hosting the pride of Boston high overhead, a feat not managed in Cambridge since...