Word: droughts
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...shine all the time?" The lyrics of the old song have been given a cruel gloss by the pitiless two-week-old heat wave that has baked the life out of the Southeast. Ten days of sauna-like temperatures of 100 degrees or more have exacerbated four months of drought, perhaps the worst dry spell in the region's history. So far, 15 people have died of heat prostration. Peanuts, hay and cotton have shriveled; the agricultural loss in Georgia is already estimated at $140 million. In North Carolina, some 200,000 chickens have died -- suffocated, in effect...
...Midwest's surplus is so stubbornly large that even this year's severe drought in the South will fail to boost depressed farm prices. The sad result: farmers in those states will face a double bind of low prices and small harvests, which could push many of them over the financial brink. Last week's heat wave, which reached 105 degrees F in parts of the Carolinas, further scorched crops and killed more than 500,000 chickens. "This could put us completely out of business," laments Dairy Farmer Charlie Bouldin, of Chatham County, N.C., who expects less than...
...charms of Texas is its inherent exaggeration of almost everything. Its weather runs to violent extremes. It is a rough joke to survive a drought of several years and then find the drought broken by torrential rains that can flood the town and wash away the pickup truck. Texas humor, like the Texas landscape, accommodates outrageous possibilities...
...bust in oil prices will pass in time like the seven-year drought of the '50s. But for all the usual Texas exuberance, one hears sometimes an elegiac note. Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah...
This spring the faculty promoted two tenure-tracked faculty members, Susan Estrich, and Martha Minow. It also ended a five-year drought in recruiting professors from other law schools which observers had termed symptomatic of political infighting at the Law School with the appointment of Mary Ann Glendon from Boston College Law School and Thomas Jackson from Stanford Law School...