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...rain began as a light drizzle. By the time we had visited the final stop on our ice cream odyssey through Harvard Square, the open skies bled a full-fledged downpour...
...investments. Some participants observed that the summit might have achieved more if it had lowered its sights and addressed the environmentally damaging consequences of present international assistance and domestic subsidies. World Bank initiatives like the Tropical Forestry Action Plan were billed as efforts to halt the destruction of rain forests, but in many cases the plan became an instrument of deforestation by fostering projects to open virgin forests to loggers. World Bank president Lewis Preston announced at the summit that the institution was willing to contribute $1.5 billion of its profits toward environment-related projects, but the bank still must...
...above, but on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean peninsula summer has arrived. In Yalta the terraced stone walls of the old town are draped in purple wisteria and wild yellow roses, and the first wave of tourists has come to stroll among the palmettos, ! cypresses and golden rain trees lining the town's crooked streets. Though it was not far from Yalta that Mikhail Gorbachev spent three days under house arrest last August during the coup attempt, the resort is best remembered as the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin convened to redraw the map of Europe. That...
...Paris was hit with a torrential rainstorm -- the worst in a decade -- that crippled the city, poisoned the Seine with sewer effluent, and clogged the river with 300 tons of dead fish. In one hour in early May, a squall dumped a record 110 mm (4 1/3 in.) of rain on Hong Kong, turning steep city streets into rushing rivers and killing five. In the Middle East this January, the wettest, coldest winter in recent memory was capped by a storm that blanketed Amman, Damascus and Jerusalem with much more snow than anyone there had seen for 40 years...
...year in which North America's spring arrived in winter, its summer in spring and its winter in autumn. The period from December 1991 to March 1992 has already gone into the National Weather Service's record books as the warmest winter in at least 97 years. It hardly rained at all in rainy Seattle in May. Texas in January was swamped with twice as much precipitation as normal, and Southern California, where it never rains, was socked with floodwaters so powerful they carried cars out to sea. Africa is having its worst drought in 50 years, and eastern Australia...