Word: droughts
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...showed everyone the solidity, the evenness of tone, the impeccable harmonies which can happen when a group has been together for more than 50 years. They sang soulful hymnals that could convert the heathens and which made my spirit rise up from what seemed like an eternity of drought to relish in the harmonies they produced. These men tell it like it is. They believe in what they sing about, and it comes across here like only the Word...
Record heat and extreme drought combined to ignite the fire season in 11 Western states. On Colorado's Storm King Mountain, 14 fire fighters were killed when they were overtaken by a wind-whipped blaze. In the East, heavy rainfall from the stalled remnants of tropical storm Alberto caused severe flooding in Georgia and Alabama, claiming 24 lives...
...International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Texcoco, Mexico, has developed new strains of corn that can increase crop yields up to 40% in regions plagued by droughts and acidic soils. One-half of the 150 million acres of corn planted in the developing world are subject to periodic drought; CIMMYT scientists estimate that the new strains could feed an additional 50 million people annually...
Euphoria engulfed the hometown fans as the New York Rangers captured the Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 drought-ridden years. After losing Games ( 5 and 6 to the Vancouver Canucks, the Rangers came back to win the seventh game of the series 3-2. Faithful fans were ecstatic as team captain Mark Messier paraded the trophy around the arena, allowing them to touch the coveted...
Euphoria engulfed the hometown hockey fans as the New York Rangers captured the Stanley Cup Championship for the first time in 54 drought-ridden years. After losing games five and six to the Vancouver Canucks, the Rangers came back to win the seventh game of the series 3-2. While surprisingly there was no violence, vandalism or arrests in raucous New York City after the final, the scene turned ugly in supposedly more civil Vancouver as an unruly crowd of 50,000 rioted for four hours. The mob looted shops, smashed windows and launched rocks, bricks and bottles at police...