Word: droughts
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...Harvard men’s soccer team’s match against the University of Pennsylvania this weekend is the first hurdle toward an elusive Ivy championship for both teams. Penn has not won since 2002—and only once since 1981—while the drought for the Crimson stretches back to 1996. Heading into the start of Ivy League play this year, both Harvard (5-2-0) and the Quakers (4-2-0) are ranked just behind Brown as favorites to contend for the title. Currently, UPenn debuted this past week at No. 7 in the NSCAA...
...wait. We movie reviewers may be starting to shutter our cabins here on the shores of Lake Wobegon (they give us special rates to compensate for the drought that annually afflicts our profession). This means we're much too busy to catch Lassie as she limps homeward one more time this weekend - especially since we have been given to understand that Peter O'Toole is not playing the dog. This does not mean, though, that we are insensible to the demand for instant nostalgia, with a dash of instant analysis thrown...
...nothing like the tourist brochures out here on the wildflower trail. The promised expanses of everlasting daisies are a riot of brown, the crippling drought postponing, if not canceling, their show. Here and there a scarlet burst of desert pea catches the eye, and the soft orange of the acorn banksia glows above creamy white smokebush along the road, but this season's wildflower hunt demands a little more effort...
...There are many threatened species in the park, and the drought isn't helping. The ground is poor in nutrients-"Dead soil, bottomless sand, really," says Edwards, "but great for natives"-and with barely 25 mm of rain so far (against last year's 125), the threat intensifies. Edwards points to a pink Verticordia. One book says it's common over a fairly wide range, but "it only grows here, despite what the guide says." The featherflower is tiny, fragile, exquisite. Not many people have seen one. It's easy to understand how the addiction might start...
Malawi is a Pennsylvania-size country in southeast Africa that has four things in abundance that the West doesn't much covet: AIDS, malaria, drought and tobacco (its major crop, now not so lucrative). On the plus side, it has a functioning democracy and no full-blown war. That may explain why, to date, Malawi has not attracted much attention from the rest of the world. But that's about to change. Malawi will soon be hit by a force that has thrown far more robust countries into chaos. Her name is Madonna...