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...crisis well before the Sept. 11 attacks raised the prospect of U.S. military reprisals. After 23 years of war, Afghans are desperately poor?per capita GDP is estimated at $800, illiteracy is more than 70% and life expectancy for males is just under 47 years. The country has suffered drought for three years, food supplies have almost been exhausted and, under the Taliban, the economy has been reduced to little more than subsistence farming and smuggling...
...with shorter ones throughout the collection. The longer pieces occasionally verge on the scope of epic poetry with their descriptions of sweeping narratives, and the shorter pieces, some consisting of only four or five lines, are usually terse, biting commentary. Common sentiment is promptly rejected in “Drought Dust on the Crockery,” in a mere five lines of verse, “Things were not better / when I was young: / things were poorer and harsher, / drought dust on the crockery,/ and I was young...
...home. The winning goal was driven home by senior Ted Papadopoulos, while freshman Steve Reuter scored his first collegiate goal. Junior captain Liam Hoben rounded out the scoring for Cornell with a 40-yard free kick that bounced into the goal. The upset against Penn State ended a scoring drought for Cornell that lasted three games...
...Bush administration announced last Thursday that it would seek $320 million in humanitarian aide for the people of Afghanistan, many of whom are fleeing the country hoping to escape the attacks. A summer drought has already contributed to the hardships the population faces...
...Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are scouting out locations within the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan's government estimates a need for about 100 new camps, each able to shelter 10,000 people. "Water is scarce," says UNHCR's spokesman Rupert Colville in Quetta, "There has been a drought for three years." Relief officials say as many as 10,000 Afghans may have already slipped into Pakistan in recent days and are being sheltered by fellow clansmen, invisible inside the fortress-like tribal homes of the harsh borderlands...