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...Roberts used to think the droughts of the Great Depression were the benchmark for tough times. Now he and other old-timers in Scottsbluff, Neb., a small farming community near the Wyoming border, are talking about the scant 2.16 in. of rain that has fallen this year--30% less than what fell during the worst of the 1930s drought years and more than 80% below normal. When it comes to water, local farmers are living through their greatest depression...
...debate at Boston University Thursday night, Birmingham chalked his lack of support up to scant attention on the part of voters...
...least 20,000 people from 193 countries were in Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The summit agreed to restore most of the world's major fisheries to commercial health by 2015 by reducing catches to a level that can be maintained indefinitely. Yet other progress was scant. The U.S. and the E.U. declined to discuss cutting their subsidies to agriculture. And they disagreed over targets for renewable energy, the cleanup of pollutants and the protection of endangered species. The Europeans want renewables to account for 15% of the world's total energy production by 2010; the Americans...
...idea that Ichiro's success could spark interest in baseball and blunt soccer's growing popularity seems logical. But it's scant consolation to those who love the proud history of the Japan League. More Japanese kids will want to play, certainly?just not in Japan...
...Like the Brazilians, Germany had a football heritage to live up to. But the team it fielded on Sunday bore scant resemblance to its imaginative sides of the past. "Der Kaiser" Franz Beckenbauer, who had participated in German World Cup victories as both player and manager, offered this unenthusiastic analysis of coach Rudi VOller's squad during the tournament: "We don't have any bad players, but at the same time there aren't any truly good ones either." German football at World Cup 2002 was not about being pretty or polished; it was about being robotically, determinedly pragmatic. "There...