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Some surpluses are welcome: Kutch has received more water in the past three weeks than in the previous two years. (There has been a drought since 1998.) In Anjar, I spot a group of urchins drinking bottled mineral water. Even the barren earth has turned bountiful: geologists report that the quake has created a new "river," a 100-km channel of fresh water from a subterranean lake is snaking its way across the rann. Hindu priests immediately pronounce this to be the Saraswati, the mythical holy river that disappeared into the ground thousands of years ago. Here and there, there...
Sitting in the stands, it was if someone had popped a balloon and all the energy in the arena had just gone out with it. Harvard was going to lose another one-goal game to Dartmouth and the drought against the nation's top-team would be extended to five games...
...only did the Crimson end its five-game drought, it snapped the Saints' stranglehold on victories at Bright Hockey Center. In front of a sellout crowd, Harvard picked up its first win over St. Lawrence at home since its 8-3 triumph during the 1994-95 season...
...loss--resulting from a lethal combination of breakdowns and shaky goaltending--sent Harvard deeper into its funk and extended its losing streak to five games, it's longest drought of the season...
From Kenya's point of view, the children are one more threat to the multi-million-dollar-a-year tourist business, already reeling from political and ethnic instability and three years of drought. Driven by poverty and AIDS, which has alone orphaned some 900,000, Kenyan children continue to pour from rural villages into Nairobi, where street crime, according to Nairobi Central Business District Association chairman Philip Kisia, has increased in direct proportion to their numbers. Yet little has been done about them. Says Kariuki: "The government cannot deal with street kids and hopes the private sector--especially the tourism...