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...best-known verses is At the River Crossing. Henry Lawson was another poet who wrote a lot about rivers. A stanza from his Song of the Darling River could apply to most of Australia's rivers. "I drown dry gullies and lave bare hills,/ I turn drought ruts into rippling rills./ I form fair islands and glades all green/ Till every bend is a sylvan scene." Rob Arthur, Melbourne...
...Holmquest said. “We did what we should, given the time of the year. I would have liked to win the race, but I’ll take the team victory over that any day of the week.” Breaking the long drought was especially sweet for the team’s seniors. “It was definitely one of our goals going into the season,” Holmquest said. “The seniors, we definitely needed to go out beating Yale once.” For the women, Princeton came in ranked...
...slowly happening in laggards like Australia and the U.S as well. Howard's sudden conversion on climate change is at least partially driven by the fact that global warming has emerged as a top concern among voters in Australia, which has suffered through years of extreme drought. The opposition Labor Party, which has pledged to sign the Kyoto Protocol, is leading in most opinion polls, and an election will occur before the end of the year. "Environmental issues have moved to the center of mainstream politics here," says Cook...
...executed and Mulugeta himself spent nine years in jail before being released to 20 years of exile in London. But he is convinced the new millennium will restore Ethiopia and the day will soon arrive when Ethiopians no longer need outside assistance. "Nobody denies we have had famines and drought," he says. "We have been through that. We feel it in our bones. But we have picked up the pieces. The third millennium will be a re-birth for Ethiopia." And something to achieve without...
...winds, drought and soaring temperatures has been blamed for more than 3,000 forest fires this year. But this week alone, a rash of deadly and uncontrollable wildfires raced through the nation, swallowing thousands of acres of scrubland in the Peloponnese - even the sacred grounds of the ancient site of the birthplace of the Olympic Games, Olympia. Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis declared a nationwide state of emergency. More controversially, the Prime Minister suggested that sabotage was behind the blazes. "So many fires, breaking out simultaneously in so many places can not be a coincidence," he said in a nationally televised...