Word: southern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comparatively rich southern provinces, we are allowed to catch a glimpse of the truth. There is still something to eat, but barely enough to sustain life for long. Severely malnourished children sit listlessly in nurseries and schools, their bodies stunted, their arms like twigs, folds of skin hanging from rib cages, eyes vacant and staring with hunger. Orphanages are filling up with children whose families can no longer feed them; unwanted newborns never leave the hospital of their birth. The little ones are dangerously vulnerable to diarrhea, pneumonia, measles. Sometimes elderly women collapse, exhausted, by the roadside. Many...
...critics fret that the law may permit churches to discriminate in hiring based on religion. Inevitably, that question and others will generate litigation. "The answers will be fact-bound," says University of Southern California law professor Erwin Chemerinsky. "But there are things these programs may do that courts will...
...forced to water down their spiritual message and purge religious concepts like sin and God until their work begins to resemble any other bureaucratic undertaking. "The disease of compromising the message will not be felt immediately," says Phil Strickland, director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, the Southern Baptists' statewide public policy arm. "It will be like a cancer that grows in the body of the church until the health of the church is compromised." At the same time Governor Bush is encouraging Texas churches to participate in government human-services programs, Strickland is at work on a statewide...
...warm water spreads into the central and eastern Pacific, these storms inevitably follow in its path, moving the tropical storm belt from one part of the Pacific to another. The rearrangement has reverberations throughout the atmosphere, causing droughts in places as far-flung as northeastern Brazil, southern Africa and Australia, while other regions, from California to Cuba, can be hit by torrential rains. These effects are variable. El Nino may weaken the Indian monsoon--or barely affect...
...long-distance climatological connections--or teleconnections, as they are called--that links the ENSO cycle to major weather changes around the globe, such as shifts in the position of the jet streams. These are the high-altitude winds that serve as weather "tracks" in both the northern and southern hemispheres. A dip in the northern hemisphere's jet stream, for instance, can be expected to direct moisture-laden storms on a more southerly route over the U.S., while a nudge in the opposite direction will result in snow and rain farther north. But figuring out exactly how a particular...