Word: saharans
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...colors and patterns you see--the visible evidence of the complex working of the natural systems that make our planet habitable--seem both vast and precise, powerful and yet somehow fragile. You see volcanoes spewing smoke, hurricanes roiling the oceans and even fine tendrils of Saharan dust reaching across the Atlantic. You also see the big, gray smudges of fields, paddies and pastures, and at night you marvel at the lights, like brilliant diamonds, that reveal a mosaic of cities, roads and coastlines--impressive signs of the hand of humanity. Scientists tell us that our hand is heavy, that...
...AIDS, malaria, cholera and tuberculosis are having a Malthusian effect. Rural-land degradation is pushing people into cities, where crowded, polluted living conditions create the perfect breeding grounds for sickness. Worldwide, at least 68 million are expected to die of AIDS by 2020, including 55 million in sub-Saharan Africa. While any factor that eases population pressures may help the environment, the situation would be far less tragic if rich nations did more to help the developing world reduce birth rates and slow the spread of disease...
...sectarian violence, "in Sierra Leone there is no religious bigotry," Kabbah says. "This is one of the things of which we're very proud." Given the country's interfaith harmony, mineral riches, abundant natural resources and a once-vaunted educational system that boasted the first university in sub-Saharan Africa, Kabbah's promise to return it to its past glory seems less quixotic than Sierra Leone's current war-scarred state would suggest. Age, says the 70-year-old widower, is no impediment to his plans, but money is. That is why, when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly...
...Britain can no longer beat up its former colonies on the battlefields of sub-Saharan Africa, the expanses of the City of Manchester Stadium became the location where Britons had to prove—more to themselves than any neutral (and, doubtless, uninterested) third party—that they were superior to their colonial underlings...
...last week bluntly described the E.U.'s development programs in Africa and other poor countries as "an outrage and a disgrace.'' She criticized the Commission for spending too much money on places such as the Balkans and North Africa and not enough in the more desperate countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The Commission says the money is going where member states want...