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...inner suburb of Melbourne, when supply of the drug simply dried up. "People were so panicked, so worried about getting sick (from withdrawal)," Bampi says. "It lasted for three or four months, but to us that was forever." Though heroin is more available now, the ripple effects of the drought continue to be felt, most noticeably in national overdose-death rates, which have plunged since 2000. In New South Wales alone, according to National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre data released this month, there was a 67% fall in opiate-related deaths between 1999 and 2002, while the number...
...killed in the rush of people selling out there," he says. Bampi's friends now ring contacts to organize deals, arranging to buy in cars, parks or busy shops. "It might take a little bit longer, but within half an hour you'll have something," says Bampi. When the drought temporarily starved them of a daily fix, Bampi and her friends began searching for other ways to get stoned. Bampi started using benzodiazepines, sedatives usually prescribed for insomnia and anxiety, topping up whatever heroin she could find: "I used to mix them with smack, take five pills with...
Last year, the University left behind a five-year drought of second- and third-place finishes to take the highest spot in the magazine’s “National Universities” category. This year Harvard remains on top—and like last year, it shares that honor with Princeton, which also received an overall score of 100. The tied Ivies bested such perennial competitors as Yale (with 99 points), the University of Pennsylvania (95), and Duke, MIT and Stanford, all tied at 94 points...
...connection between drought and wildfires is strong, says Thomas Swetnam, head of the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. And the most dangerous fires, he says, occur when droughts follow years that are unusually wet. That's because generous rains encourage trees, shrubs and grasses to grow, providing the fuel that stokes forest fires. This pattern of wet preceding dry, Swetnam thinks, helped feed the intense blazes that raged through the Southwest shortly after 1850, taking out huge stands of conifers. So, if a new El Nino materializes later this year, as some experts expect...
...past is an imperfect lens through which to peer into the future, but looking backward provides a glimpse, at least, of the sorts of extended dry spells that those who live in this drought-prone region today should be prepared to endure. The West, observed writer Marc Reisner, has a "desert heart," and we ignore it at our peril...