Word: witheringly
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...warming, dams, deforestation and slash-and-burn farming exponentially exacerbate these seasonal weather patterns. Inept and corrupt water management also contributes to the problem, allowing plentiful water to run off to the seas or leaving it to lie in floods on the land, while a few hours away, crops wither in parched fields. South Asia's water woes are hardly unique. China faces simultaneous floods and droughts every year, as devastating surges down the Yangtze River cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, while deforestation turns farmland north of Beijing into desert. In Uzbekistan, the Soviets created...
...regular top-ups to my Crimson Cash account. Beyond the carefully constructed myth of the dutiful student, clutching ID in hand while feverishly xeroxing all over campus, is the terrifying truth: I don’t think I’ve ever used a photocopier in college and instead wither away most of my plastic money at the Coop on magazines and superflous stationery...
...noon that day, Yi met with some of the province's highest health officials. Every person in that room had lived and worked through the first-ever SARS outbreak, and many were clinicians who had watched patients wither, suffocate and die from the disease. Of these physicians, the most powerful was Dr. Zhong Nanshan, 67, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease. Famous for having been a physician to China's late leader Deng Xiaoping, Zhong had also pioneered the earliest clinical treatments of SARS, emerging as the doctor most associated with fighting, and eventually defeating, the disease...
...coming of age--old age. In two years the first offspring of the post--World War II generation (born from 1946 to 1964) will turn 60. What will that mean for the sons and daughters of the Age of Aquarius? Will passion diminish? Will performance decline or (gasp!) wither away...
...Pentagon optimists remain convinced that the insurgency is small and slowly choking to death. "Real insurgents need the support of the local population, and they don't have that," says a senior civilian aide who traveled in Iraq last weekend with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "They are going to wither and die. The question is how long it will take...