Word: droughts
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...through a bill allowing its construction. But though the debate is not new, the context has changed dramatically. On one hand, free-running rivers, unobstructed by dams, have become a rarity, which has increased their aesthetic, ecological and recreational value. On the other hand, with recent experience of protracted drought and soaring energy costs, Western states in particular are more worried than ever about the security of both their water supplies and sources of hydropower...
...three Day children--Sandra, Ann and Alan--learned early that self-reliance was a necessary survival skill. When rain occasionally wet the arid land, she wrote in Lazy B, a 2002 memoir that she co-authored with Alan, "We were saved again--saved from the ever present threat of drought, of starving cattle, of anxious creditors. We would survive a while longer." Self-reliance was also a political value: her father Harry was a staunch opponent of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. And it was a reason to respect knowledge: O'Connor's mother Ada Mae, a college graduate...
...deal comes amid an industry drought in which ticket sales fell from 1.63 billion in 2002 to 1.53 billion last year. And attendance is lagging again this summer. But since 1970, annual ticket sales have risen 67%, outpacing population growth, so AMC representatives argue that the recent downturn is but a blip for U.S. box-office numbers, which totaled $9.53 billion...
...make matters worse, for the past seven years Mozambique (pop. 14 million) has been beset by drought and widespread starvation. In 1983, an estimated one-third of Mozambique's population did not have enough to eat. As many as 100,000 died. The situation has stabilized, but Mozambique remains one of the largest food-aid recipients in Africa. "People are not dying so much anymore," says a CARE worker in Maputo. "But they are fleeing. They are barefoot and wandering...
...combination of drought and civil war has uprooted as many as 2 million people from their villages and forced them into a nomadic existence. About 100,000 of these refugees, many of them orphaned children, live in more than 100 resettlement camps, most of them strung out along Mozambique's 1,500-mile coastline. "At the worst time, a year ago, we were getting 50 to 75 people a day," says Alberto Cavele, director of the resettlement camp at Cambine, near the coastal city of Inhambane. "Some people have walked here from 250 miles away. And some died...