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...middle of its epic drought last year, Georgia decided to pick a fight. The state resurrected a 190-year-old cartographical mistake and passed a resolution forming a commission to negotiate with Tennessee on moving Georgia's border about a mile north to the 35th parallel - not coincidentally through a loop of the Tennessee River. The good people of Tennessee treated Georgia's move as a joke. Tennessee State Sen. Andy Berke, whose Chattanooga district would become part of Georgia under the other state's plan, proposed a winner-take-all wrestling match or football game to settle the matter...
...Feeling braver a few hours later, we stopped in the village of Hosingo, perhaps an hour south of Doble, and talked to the village chiefs. We weren't given any lectures on Western immorality or the superior path of Islam. Instead, Adam Ibrahim Lagame talked about drought, poverty and starvation. It hadn't rained for a year. No aid had reached Hosingo since UNICEF built a school in 1996. "People are about to start dying here," said Adam. "The children have cholera and diarrhea. We have no food. Even if anyone was willing to come to help us, we have...
...what Sven and I saw, Doble itself, like much of Africa and Arabia, is a place full of hospitable villagers struggling to survive amid what the U.N. says has now overtaken Darfur as Africa's worst humanitarian disaster, with 1.8 million people in dire need of assistance. And if drought, starvation and disease weren't enough, they now find themselves on the latest battleground in a global war between the U.S. and al-Qaeda. The victims of Monday's missile strike, say the villagers of Doble, were not the militants they fear, but four of their own. On Tuesday...
...poorest nations. This is due partly to their geographic locations—generally nearer to the equator, where climate change will cause more devastating changes than areas closer to the poles—and due partly to their inability to fund measures to mitigate effects such as drought or rising sea levels...
...knew we were going to capitalize on those chances at some point,” she added. “I think it was really important for us to come back and win a game like this.”Vaillancourt’s goal broke a long scoring drought for the Crimson. Though the match ended in dramatic fashion, it looked like it would be another easy win for Harvard after the first five minutes.At 2:56 in the first period, the Crimson took a power-play advantage after an interference penalty against Colgate. Sophomore defenseman Kathryn Farni converted...