Word: droughts
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...streak that Harvard needed to end if it was going to contend in the playoffs, and it is hard to think of a more important game in which Suurkask could have ended that drought...
...vitamin-A deficiency, die every year and an additional 350,000 go blind. Potrykus saw his rice as the modest start of a new green revolution: bananas that wouldn't rot on the way to market; corn that could supply its own fertilizer; wheat that could thrive in drought-ridden soil...
...game strong enough, jumping out to a 14-6 lead over the first six minutes on three-pointers by Tubridy and junior point guard Jenn Monti, who was battling a sprained ankle. By halftime, the margin was still eight, 29-21, after Harvard went on a six-minute scoring drought before Peljto hit a lay-up and foul shot with 13 seconds left...
...true that we had a dependency," says Mahamoud Mohamed Uluso, a minister in the Barre government. But once the cold war ended, the money dried up. What followed made many donor nations wary of getting involved in Somalia again. A U.N. operation to feed starving Somalis during a prolonged drought ended after continued clan fighting, while the failure of the related U.S.-led intervention force created a one-word rationale for America's reluctance to intervene in far-off trouble spots: Somalia. No Western country recognizes the new government, though both Italy, the former colonial power in the south...
...wonders how to apply that vocabulary to the current election. The present election has been a depressing drought for anyone who cares about music and the politics of sexiness. One shudders to think whose Doppelganger Al Gore '69 is, if Clinton is heir to the King. Perhaps Pat Boone? Gary Lewis? Better, I think, not to stretch, and instead to wait for a politician who has half the gusto of a Clinton or a Pierre Trudeau. Our natural disgust for the insipid, bloodless legalism of this election, coupled with Marcus' insights on our attraction to political depravity, go a long...