Word: monsoonal
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...sudden chill would shorten growing seasons, and the resulting changes in precipitation could be even more damaging. Colder air is dryer air, and Alley points out that during the Younger Dryas, the monsoon weakened in Asia and the Sahara expanded. Harvey Weiss, a Yale archaeologist who has studied the role of climate in human history, notes that it's not changes in temperature that bring down civilizations but changes in precipitation...
...running down her cheeks, reached for Rae and pulled her close, holding her as if they might take her again. "I told myself I wouldn't cry," she said. The interpreter wept. Linda wept. I wept. Right then, right that minute, the heavens opened up, and it poured a monsoon starter kit on us, just an all-out Noah. Yeah, even the sky wept...
...crackling with electricity this Tuesday in Saigon (officially Ho Chi Minh City, but the locals have reverted to the old name). Monsoon clouds are moving in from the west. People are hurrying along sidewalks, newspaper vendors are getting out plastic sheeting, cyclo drivers are making for shelter...
...that will to win that keeps hopefuls arriving at the modeling academies, each convinced that she too can become Miss Universe. Consider Seher Bhandari, 20, a Miss Monsoon contestant who dropped out of engineering school because her friends told her she was tall enough to model. Bhandari plans to win the Miss India title and then become a movie star. "I am very adamant and clear about what I want to do," she says shortly before the competition. "I don't have a godfather in the movie business, so I take part in these contests because I need the experience...
...pageant reaches its climax, the tuxedoed presenter announces the runners-up. It's clear that Bhandari is the winner. With damp eyes, Miss Monsoon stoops slightly to receive her tiara and begins dreaming of the next pageant...