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...life in the desert is water, and no matter how sensitively houses are located aboveground, everyone is still drawing from the same precious supply of groundwater. In the long term, overuse of groundwater means slow death for desert plants, whose roots are unable to reach down far enough to sustain them. When plants die, animals run out of food and shelter--a process that is often noticed only after it's too late...
...total of 11 family members rely on him for support. "We are not here because we want to be here, but because we have to be here," he says. "I love Zimbabwe, but the way things are now, we wouldn't survive." Ironically, the expat community is helping to sustain Mugabe's regime. "What keeps Zimbabwe from total economic collapse is the Zimbabwean diaspora," says Elinor Sisulu, who is a co-ordinator of the Zimbabwe Crisis Coalition, an advocacy group for the expat community in Johannesburg. "Mugabe's investment in education is paying off now. The diaspora is providing something...
Johnson, who runs PrepMatters, an SAT-coaching firm in Bethesda, Md., not only advises his students to eat a good breakfast before the exam; he also helps them use practice tests to determine which snacks sustain them best. "It made a difference," says Jan Evans, whose son Walker was coached by Johnson two years ago. Though he ran out of steam during a practice test when he had eaten beef jerky, Walker fared better on the granola bars and bananas that Johnson recommended. "He was surprised he wasn't burned out," says Evans, who was impressed...
Tylander is not the only women’s lacrosse player to sustain a knee injury this season, as junior attack Emma Millon tore her ACL a week earlier. For players like Sproul, who have been on the team for four years, this is a rare event—and one from which the team is recovering...
Barro opened for HRC, stating that the current system is in crisis because the government cannot sustain the costs of social security without cutting spending or raising taxes, “something President Bush said in his State of the Union after beating your candidate,” he said, taunting the Dems...