Word: droughts
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...along with five expensive foreign cars, a truck, a parking lot, part of a four-lane road and much of a municipal swimming pool-into a sinkhole. That geological oddity resulted when underground limestone caverns, which are usually filled and strengthened by water, were gradually drained during a severe drought. The caverns collapsed, and a circular hole 340 ft. across and 100 ft. deep opened up in the middle of a busy neighborhood...
...past ten years to have worn white tie and tails three times, chopped half a cord of wood, ridden a horse, shortened the Inaugural parade, received a ton of jelly beans, got eight pints of new blood and floated enough good humor to buoy, after a 17-year drought, the hopes of those people who compile books on presidential wit. But these things are not the stuff of Schlesingerian legend...
...populous nation, is suffering from the worst-and least publicized-series of natural disasters since its 1976 Tangshan earthquake. Some 20 million people in two widely separated regions of the country are living on meager government-supplied cereal rations as they cope with the twin catastrophes of flood and drought. For the first time in its 31-year history, the Chinese Communist regime has been forced to issue a circumspect appeal for large-scale international aid. So extraordinary is the request, and so explosive its implications, that both Chinese and United Nations officials have been trying to keep the revelation...
...flood disaster pales, however, when compared with the results of a two-year drought that is centered in the northern province of Hebei, but has also affected five other neighboring provinces. An estimated 14 million people are living on survival rations. Says a recent visitor: "There are vast areas of parched land where nothing has grown since early last year. Wells are bone dry or terribly low." Contagious diseases are epidemic, and rickets strikes an estimated 11 % of children under 14. The drought shows no sign of ending. Declares an international relief official: "The situation can only deteriorate even further...
However thin you spread it, peanut butter is in short supply and increasingly expensive as a result of last summer's drought in the producing states. The impending sandwich crisis may be averted, however. From Texas, which also helps fill the oil gap, comes a substitute spread that sticks to roofs of mouths as fondly as the real stuff. Made from organically grown glandless cotton nut kernels mixed with 15% peanut oil, the American nut butter is higher in protein and lower in calories than peanut preserve. The Madeleine & Charlotte's brand, available in chunky salted and creamy...