Word: thirsted
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...filled with the homeless, the government's actions make no sense. She asks, "When the government can help other countries, why are they letting us down?" Says fellow survivor Aslam Majid, 22, who went five days without water: "People aren't dying from the tsunami. They're dying of thirst and hunger...
...most intriguing--if least provable--has been that the brutal conditions aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic served as a sort of adaptive choke point, selecting for people with a tendency to retain salt and water. This allowed them to survive the murderous journey without succumbing to thirst but predisposed their descendants to hypertension. Dr. Lawrence Appel of the Johns Hopkins University School of Med-icine believes that modern-day African Americans do process sodium a bit differently from whites and may even have a less reactive renin-angiotensin system...
...Caley's men did with homemade twine, the team has to lower its packs on rope where the rock face is steepest. The cool Grose waters provide only short relief before a lung-bursting ascent to the top, where Caley and his men tried to quench their burning thirst with native currants...
...getting Iran raked over the coals at the Security Council, or threatened with sanctions, for a number of reasons. Some are simply commercial: China, which has veto power at the Security Council, is fast emerging as the leading buyer of Iran's oil and natural gas exports, and the thirst for scarce energy resources of the burgeoning Chinese economy makes sanctions against Iran intolerable to Beijing...
Yang's globe trotting reflects just how powerful China's thirst for fossil fuels has become. A booming but energy-inefficient economy and an emerging middle class in love with cars and other modern conveniences have caused energy demand in China to soar. The nation's oil imports have doubled over the past three years and surged nearly 40% in the first half of 2004 alone, pushing the country past Japan to become the world's second largest oil consumer, behind...