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...Roberts used to think the droughts of the Great Depression were the benchmark for tough times. Now he and other old-timers in Scottsbluff, Neb., a small farming community near the Wyoming border, are talking about the scant 2.16 in. of rain that has fallen this year--30% less than what fell during the worst of the 1930s drought years and more than 80% below normal. When it comes to water, local farmers are living through their greatest depression...
...Europe and Curtis Strange of the U.S. - agreed to stick with the 2001 rosters, so players' form and fitness were beyond their control. Europe has Westwood, and the U.S. has Hal Sutton, the top-scoring American at the 1999 Cup at Brookline Country Club, outside Boston, whose ranking has fallen to 115. Injuries have also hampered Ireland's Padraig Harrington (neck and ankle) and Colin Montgomerie of Scotland (back), whom Swedish rookie Pierre Fulke calls the team's "big-brother figure." Says Torrance: "I've got maybe 80% of the team at the top of their game. 20% is struggling...
...many Americans will soon close up shop altogether, giving way to the E.U.'s first-ever peacekeeping effort. Meanwhile, senior U.S. special envoys like James Holmes, who helped engineer last year's peace in Macedonia, handed over troubleshooting to ambassadors in the field. U.S. aid to the region has fallen 10% this year and is slated to drop a further 20% in 2003. The Europeans, meanwhile, are expanding their presence. They have already taken the lead in Macedonia, now the Balkans' most volatile trouble spot, and that role is likely to deepen with the arrival of E.U. peacekeepers...
...terrorism is that our military strength is surpassed only by the strength of our ideals. Our enemies are weaker than we are in men and arms, but weaker still in causes. They fight to express an irrational hatred for all that is good in humanity, a hatred that has fallen time and again to the armies and ideals of the righteous. We fight for love of freedom and justice, a love that is invincible. We will never surrender. They will. All we must do is stay true to our faith...
...officials are trying to ease the adversarial relationship lest their planned turnaround be torpedoed by strikes and other industrial actions. The task has fallen to Lawrence Zahner, 48, an affable, fast-talking Baltimore native who in the early 1970s painted cars at a GM plant at night to help pay his way through college. As GM's vice president for manufacturing in Korea, Zahner has spent his first year on the job trying to use a mix of down-home American good humor and hard bargaining to get the workers' union on board. "My point to them is that...