Word: droughts
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...Crimson could not take advantage of the opportunity, though, as the next two minutes ticked down scoreless before the Wildcats ended the drought when Ohlde and sophomore guard Laurie Koehn drained three free throws, putting Kansas State’s advantage back into double-digits at 72-61 with under a minute to play...
...Iranian border when the U.S. forces were closing in. The Iranian side is just as vacant of authority as the Pakistani and Afghan frontiers. But it's also possible that if bin Laden was in the vicinity, he remained in the mountains around Ribat Qila. A five-year drought has emptied the area, and abandoned mud houses litter the wasteland. Sometimes I'd see a 4-by-4 parked outside an isolated house, and my guide would tell me it probably belonged to a smuggler. Who knows? It could easily have been al-Qaeda...
...though Harvard’s present Ivy championship drought of three years is its longest since the inception of Ivy women’s tennis, the Crimson—judging by its results so far—has the strong team it needs to win the toughest Ivy round-robin ever following spring break. But there are many matches to play before then...
...band, the Black Spirits, hit the charts with Africa, an album filled with driving dance beats and heady optimism about the future. For years, Zimbabwe did live up to its revolutionary promise. It was southern Africa's land of milk and honey - and maize and tobacco and beef. But drought and a botched land-reform program have decimated farming. Last week, a government report named prominent members of the ruling ZANU-PF, including Mugabe's sister and top officials, who had broken the "one man, one farm" rule for the redistribution of white-owned commercial farms. Zimbabweans had known this...
...Some of my neighbors lost their whole herd and had to leave the steppe," he says, stuffing his water pipe with tobacco while his wife feeds dung into the stove with her bare hand. Jampur can't conceive of following them to the city. He knows there was a drought this summer and heavy snowfall early in the winter?the hallmarks of another dzud?and his animals, he admits, already look thin. "But we've made it this far," he says. "So we can stick...