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...plus side, Saudi Arabia, with 2.5 million bbl. a day in spare capacity, has promised to make up part of Iraq's shortfall. The U.S., Europe and the major industrialized countries of Asia also have access to substantial oil stocks to help them weather the likely drought. President Bush has given orders to top off America's 700 million--bbl. Strategic Petroleum Reserve--enough oil to meet U.S. needs for 36 days. That process is about 85% complete. The most probable scenario, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research institute in Washington...
...former herders like Bayarsakhan, the transition to city living has been wrenching. He grew up in Gobi-Altai province to the south, where his family had raised livestock for generations. Four summers ago, however, a severe drought was followed by an early frost, then a brutal winter with high winds. Mongolians have a name for this: the dzud. The historical norm has been roughly one dzud every half-decade, making for a tough season before more-manageable weather returns. But it's now happening for a fourth consecutive year. The dzud means less grass grows and animals can't fatten...
...Harvard succeeds in doing that, it may end a four-year drought and finally reach the Beanpot Championship. If that happens, it may end the second Monday in February hosting the pride of Boston high overhead, a feat not managed in Cambridge since...
...learn a lot. At every meal you hear about other meals missed - a day spent in line or a dinner skipped for lack of maize meal, the local staple. You hear of the shortages brought on by government price controls and farm seizures. You hear frustration over seasons of drought and see angry eyes raised at the clear blue sky. Talk invariably turns to exit strategies. Whites opt for Perth or Cape Town or, worse, chilly London - always "for the children." Among blacks, there's wishful thinking of a job earning foreign currency in Botswana, Namibia, England. At each meal...
...irony, for a desert city in its fifth consecutive year of drought, is that it is water that's killing Jaisalmer. The city was built of dry stone in 1156, before the advent of piped water and underground sewers. In those days, residents collected their water from a nearby lake and stored it in clay urns. Today the gallons piped in daily to meet the demands of a growing population and its shower-needy visitors are overwhelming the ancient plumbing. "Seepage into the foundations has left many structures unstable," says Sue Carpenter, founder of a charity called Jaisalmer in Jeopardy...