Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows little about the extremist movements in the closed Saudi kingdom, but it is certain that they have been gaining strength in the years since the Gulf War. The most religious Saudis resented the presence of 541,000 American troops on and near their holy soil. Saudis also asked themselves why they had spent billions on planes and tanks if they had to ask the U.S. to defend them anyway. Many opponents of the regime appear to be drawn from the thousands of devout volunteers who received training and fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Others are conservatives who favor...
Then came the exodus of more than 1 million Rwandans in 1994. Militiamen and members of the defeated Hutu army, furious at losing their war with Tutsi rebels, soon joined with their Zairian Hutu brethren and began killing Zairian Tutsi. Their objective, observers believe, is a "Hutuland" on Zairian soil that would provide a safe haven for refugees and a base for ongoing armed incursions into Rwanda...
...relatively familiar world of viruses and bacteria. Instead, it hails from the strange realm of protozoa--single-celled organisms that have complex, multistep life cycles and are big enough to be seen under an ordinary microscope. Protozoa are usually found in ponds and moist, humid places like garden soil. There are many different types of protozoa, but this particular strain was not identified until the early 1990s...
...afternoon drive in the country, may not recognize the creeping devastation sweeping past their car windows. Irrigated fields are still green, overshadowing the brown, crisping lands between and around them. Thanks to lessons learned in the 1930s, farm acreage has long been tilled and cultivated with an eye to soil conservation, to making fields less likely to blow away; the contemporary Dust Bowl is not as dusty as its famous predecessor...
...time to plant cotton and corn has come and, in most places, gone, while farmers hunker down in their fields and crumble handfuls of soil into plumes of fine dust. Texas is the nation's leading cotton-growing state, but agronomists there predict that 50% of this year's crop could be lost, along with more than $200 million profit to farmers and producers. Prospects for the corn crop are just as barren. "Corn should be 8 ft. high by now," says Mark Miller, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University, "but even in the best fields...