Word: droughts
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...Karefa-Smart wonders where he will be a year from now. The tall, trim visiting professor of International Health may still be at the Medical School, lecturing on preventive medicine and world health. Or he might be back in West Africa, helping fellow Africans survive the unending five-year drought. But, if he had his way, he would be home in what he calls "my little country," in Sierra Leone, where re-arrest and imprisonment may await...
...Much of the donated food remains heaped high on the docks where it is prey to rats, locusts and thieves. The major problem, however, is logistics. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, after inspecting the famine areas in February, reported: "I saw piles of foodstuffs in the capitals of the drought-stricken countries, but the governments told me they cannot ship it to the areas most afflicted. Because of the lack of roads-it is just sand, everywhere you look you have sand-after a relatively short time, the trucks are not usable any more...
Donkey Caravans. With almost all of the drought area far away from the few railways, navigable rivers and paved roads, relief trucks have had to crawl along sand and dirt paths in desert heat. In Ethiopia, some of the neediest areas are so deep in the countryside that only caravans of donkeys and camels have been able to reach them...
...from the U.S. because inadequate rains coupled with fertilizer shortages reduced recent harvests. With perhaps half of its 600 million people living at or below the subsistence level -eating no more than one meager meal daily-even a slight drop in food production can have an enormous impact. If drought returns to India this year, tens of millions of lives will be threatened...
...ensure the survival of some species over long periods of drought and temperature extremes, nature has produced organisms that can exist many years in suspended animation. Last week two scientists announced that in soil samples taken from deep below the surface of Antarctica, they found frozen bacteria that may be anywhere from 10,000 to 1 million years old. When incubated, some of the bacteria not only returned to life but also reproduced...