Word: drought
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...learn a lot. At every meal you hear about other meals missed - a day spent in line or a dinner skipped for lack of maize meal, the local staple. You hear of the shortages brought on by government price controls and farm seizures. You hear frustration over seasons of drought and see angry eyes raised at the clear blue sky. Talk invariably turns to exit strategies. Whites opt for Perth or Cape Town or, worse, chilly London - always "for the children." Among blacks, there's wishful thinking of a job earning foreign currency in Botswana, Namibia, England. At each meal...
...irony, for a desert city in its fifth consecutive year of drought, is that it is water that's killing Jaisalmer. The city was built of dry stone in 1156, before the advent of piped water and underground sewers. In those days, residents collected their water from a nearby lake and stored it in clay urns. Today the gallons piped in daily to meet the demands of a growing population and its shower-needy visitors are overwhelming the ancient plumbing. "Seepage into the foundations has left many structures unstable," says Sue Carpenter, founder of a charity called Jaisalmer in Jeopardy...
...things were equal, teams would make the Super Bowl every 16 years. Well, ask the Jets about that. They were Super Bowl champs in 1968 and haven't been back ? the longest return drought of any team. You bet they'd give up two No. 1's, two No. 2's and $8 mil to get back to the Super Bowl. (The NFL, however, has put the kibash on all trades that exchange coaches for draft picks...
...watch the Weather Channel in fair weather or foul, through all the pollen counts and hypnotic green radar maps, often for hours on end. But the weather engaged, according to the channel's research, make up only about 40% of its audience, so viewership lurches from flood to drought: a couple of million viewers in severe weather, a few hundred thousand during normal periods. If you watch the Weather Channel merely to get your weather, you are part of Burke's problem. And he is hoping he has the solution: Storm Stories (weeknights, 8 p.m. E.T.), the Weather Channel...
...grand tradition of early January releases, the Ashton Kutcher-Brittany Murphy vehicle Just Married is a huge waste of time. Other wothless films that have recently shared the honor of opening during the post-holiday drought season include Save the Last Dance and the Ryan Phillippe snore-fest Anti Trust. Like those films, Just Married is a predictable, derivative marketing tool with beautiful people and beautiful morals...