Word: sand
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...effort to stop the advance of the desert and has set up a system of laws to manage the land from afar; herders are being relocated and it's now forbidden to graze on badly hit areas. The slow process of regrowth has started in limited areas, and the sand storms hitting Beijing have been less severe in the last few years. Though some scientists chalk uo the latter to fluctuations in weather, others say it's a sign that the grasslands are starting to return to health. "Maybe some places are getting better, but some places are getting worse...
...plan dovetails with Beijing's ambitious goal of generating 2 million tons of bio-ethanol a year by 2010, and 15% of its energy from renewable resources by 2020. (Seventy percent of mainland China's energy comes from coal today.) In another desert village, drought-resistant shrubs called sand willows are being planted to keep encroaching sands at bay, but there are also plans to start processing them in a biomass thermal power plant, which will burn the willows to generate electricity and create another clean source of fuel...
...your heads out of the sand! We won't have to worry about global warming 50 years from now or, for that matter, five years from now if we keep ignoring the fact that nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists will make everything extinct...
...course opened by Prince Paul Karadjordjevic in 1936--and bombed a few years later--is a restaurant named Golf. A new course in Belgrade opened in 2003 and has since seen its membership quadruple. The game is part of a new experience, a new Serbia, in which bunkers are sand traps, not places to hide. "Another three or four years, and I'll go pro," local champ Ognjen Radovic, 14, said nonchalantly, as if planning for one's future was never a luxury in Serbia. "And then I'll go to America and be like Tiger Woods...
...said he still respects that Bush made tax cuts such a big priority and he's willing to give the President this one last shot to get it right. "I hear that they plan on focusing on this all fall and if he's drawn a line in the sand and he keeps it then that'll be hard to ignore," Norquist said. "We're Americans: We judge people by how they finish and not how they start...