Word: droughts
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...people, disrupted the lives of 63 million and released a disease epidemic. A full two-thirds of Bangladesh is now under water, while 1.2 million homes have been washed away region-wide. Out the right side of the cockpit sprawls another equally devastated landscape, this time a drought that has spawned starvation and suicide by thousands of desperate farmers, and even threatens to stunt India's surging economy. At this moment last Wednesday, Singh has orders to fly to the floods where, skirting the wrecks of two other crashed relief choppers, he drops packets of rice, sugar cane, matches...
...economist Subir Gokarn at ratings agency Crisil predicts that crop losses will cut the country's growth rate from 8.2% last year to no more than 5.75% this year. But given that three-quarters of India's 1 billion citizens live off the land, the human cost of the drought is nearly incalculable. Vidarbha villager Satish Bhuyar was counting on a bumper crop of soybean and cotton to help pay off loans for his sister's wedding. The monsoon arrived in early June, Bhuyar sowed his fields, but the rains stopped and his saplings died. The rains came again...
...trouble. But we're not sure what to do about it. The renegade palaeontologists have an idea. It's to get back to what Australia has produced over millions of years, (to rely) on animals and plants that are perfectly attuned to this land, that are used to drought . . . kangaroos need a third as much water as sheep. So Riversleigh has become much more than we ever anticipated. It's not only the treasure chest and window into all things wonderful and ancient; it's (a warning) to change the way we're utilizing Australia to ensure this wonderful, uniquely...
...described the effects of the official 35-hour week as "perverse." But don't expect change until after the summer holiday. 'Tis The Season To Go Public It's summer, and the IPOs are in full bloom. After years of drought, this is comeback time for the initial public offering; European IPOs for June have already trumped the $6.6 billion fetched during all of 2003, according to Dealogic. Shares in Spanish broadcaster Telecinco had soared by more than 20% at the end of its debut week, while Italy's state-controlled utility Enel cheered the flotation of its national power...
That's a scary thought. After crushing the 1997 Masters with a 12-stroke win to become, at 21, Augusta's youngest champion, Tiger went through a similar drought, going 28 months without winning a major. He followed that lag with the Tiger Slam: four straight titles, from the 2000 U.S. Open through the 2001 Masters. Like Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan before him, Tiger has blurred perspective. When only four golfers have won more majors than you have, at 28, honors like five straight Player of the Year awards are no longer good enough...