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...Dryness can be caused by short-term weather patterns with low humidity or by a lengthy drought that parches the landscape...
FUEL It's a dangerous recipe: decades of fighting every forest fire have left many areas dangerously full of fuel--sticks, fallen timber, pine needles and brush. This year's drought has sapped the natural moisture from the ground...
Swiss was born four months ago of a hasty merger between the defunct national airline - crippled by a failed expansion plan and the post-Sept. 11 travel drought - and its regional subsidiary Crossair. Banks, private industry and the government chipped in ?1 billion to launch the company. To signal a new era while capitalizing on Swissair's traditional image of quality, the name and logo were changed only slightly. The fleet of 128 planes serves 126 cities in 60 countries, 30% fewer destinations than before the merger. "Some people expect this airline to follow Swissair's model," says Stephane Garelli...
...come with references stating they had not served with the Taliban. Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai asked for American bodyguards to reinforce his security after the murder of Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir earlier this month. SOUTHERN AFRICA Adding More to Africa's Woes: Famine Two years of drought, flooding, political instability and incompetence have caused food shortages affecting as many as 15 million people in six southern African countries. Worst hit are Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia, where rains fell at the wrong time and floods washed away crops. Internal strife has not helped. Angola is emerging from decades...
...week, the news stayed nasty. Even as some of the biggest wildfires were brought under control, more than two dozen blazes still raged across nearly a million acres in eight western states. Meanwhile six more states in the heartland and Pacific Northwest were placed on fire alert, and stubborn drought and searing heat threatened to turn the East flammable...