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...whims of weather have always bedeviled India's food production. This year the drought that appears every five years with devastating regularity has struck again, sweeping across India from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea and north to the foothills of the Himalayas. Across the vast Deccan Plateau, where 50 million people live, crops are stunted, cattle emaciated, and people weak and exhausted from hunger. Thanks to astute stockpiling by the government-and to the Green Revolution that has helped to double food production in the past decade-India for the first time in centuries has enough...
...games with Cornell and Dartmouth will be crucial ones in Harvard's bid to regain the Ivy crown after a long ten year drought. Cornell has won the League the last seven years in a row, with the Crimson finishing second five of those years...
French experts often politely describe U.S. wine as pleasant but not great. Baron Philippe de Rothschild, millionaire oenophile and vintner (Château Mouton Rothschild), says: "To develop character, great wines must go through hardship. Snow. Drought. Storms. There must be suffering to produce it. In California everything is much too perfect. The soil is too rich. The weather is too good. The wine all comes out industrially uniform, like Coca-Cola." In 1966, the Paris chain store Prisunic put three lines of California wines on sale. Some 60,000 bottles gathered dust and derision for several months before being...
...admits is "guess-work"-as a once more numerous society that hunted the broad valley below their present home, retreating only seasonally into the mountains. Creation of a game reserve a generation ago penned the Ik into the mountains, forcing them to farming. Then they were afflicted by drought, hunger, isolation, technical inadequacy, disease...
...afternoon, in the makeup game, it was the Reds who provided the ninth-inning histrionics. With the score tied 4-4, Rose singled Geronimo home from second to keep the Reds' series hopes alive. At week's end, back on their home ground, the Reds ended their drought. Led by Bench, who hit his first home run (and thus notched his first RBI) of the series, Cincinnati batters peppered four Oakland pitchers for ten hits in an 8-1 win, tying the Series at three games apiece and setting up Sunday's dramatic showdown...