Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, many state-level Republicans shook off the dust of defeat and began trying to rebuild. In Illinois, for example, the party in recent years had fallen under the control of conservatives, who alienated moderates. "We'd better get the message," declared Senator Charles Percy, as he called for a strategy meeting next week of the Illinois party's county chairmen and other officials...
...people now starving in West Bengal. "In the Kutch district of drought-stricken Gujarat," adds Shepherd, "peasants patiently wait for dogs and vultures to finish picking at the carcasses of dead cattle. The hungry gather up the bones and sell them to mills where they are made into bone dust, a kind of fertilizer...
Despite such regional woes as America's Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the world's major agricultural areas have enjoyed an unparalleled record of beneficent weather for the past half-century. It has been "the most abnormal period in at least a thousand years," says Reid A. Bryson, director of the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Environmental Studies. Temperatures were surprisingly high, and the warmth fostered plant growth in normally well-watered areas, while some deserts shrank under the influence of regular rainfall...
Bryson, for one, blames the earth's cooling on an increase of dust in the atmosphere. Acting like tiny mirrors, dust particles reflect some of the sunlight striking the earth's atmosphere, depriving the surface of solar heat. Bryson believes that the excess dust comes in part from volcanic eruptions, which seem to have increased in recent years. Still other atmosphere polluters could be: 1) extensive land clearing and deforestation by slash-and-burn techniques, and 2) the increased use of fossil fuels, which release soot into...
...islands -"not really antique stuff," he says, "just Hawaiian drinking-and-good-time songs from before the war, the kind of thing you never hear back here." That is part of Cooder's unique gift: to make the country come together in its music, Delta to Dust Bowl, city to small town to island. This also makes him one of the most generative talents working in popular music today. And that, as the song says, is a natural fact...