Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mike Brannan against Britain's Ian Hutcheon. Hutcheon was a commanding two up after 16 holes but on the 17th he left his tee shot out to the right and caught the bunker that had cost Siderowf so dearly minutes earlier. Three times Hutcheon rained blows down upon the sand and three times the ball failed to budge. He now stood...
...piano about committment in love. The most exciting song is "The Dance," a rousing gypsy song that slides back and forth from an intellectual consideration of an existential decision to the simply joy of experiencing the alternatives through stillness and movement: "If the choice is to sit in the sand or dance, why not dance...
...tide of ecological refugees from land turning to sand...
...century, an estimated 251,000 sq. mi. (650,000 sq. km.) of farming and grazing land has been swallowed up by the Sahara along that great desert's southern fringe. In one part of India's Rajasthan region, often called the dustiest place in the world, sand cover has increased by about 8% in only 18 years. In the U.S., so much once fertile farm land has been abandoned for lack of water along Interstate 10 between Tucson and Phoenix that dust storms now often sweep the highway...
...most Americans, desertification is not a problem. But for many of the 78 million people who in recent years have had the ground under them turn to dust or sand, there is no easy escape. Washington's Worldwatch Institute estimates that the lives of perhaps 50 million people are jeopardized. As their fields and pastures become no man's lands, the dispossessed add to the tide of ecological refugees who have already swollen the Third World's ranks of unemployed and destitute. Unable to feed themselves, they place new strains on the food supply and create...