Word: downpours
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...first downpour of Haiti's rainy season came on Feb. 17, Ash Wednesday, a day when Christians ponder their mortality. Most Haitians are Roman Catholic, but they hardly needed the reminder - not after the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 of them. Marie Chantal, a baker who is living in a vast and squalid shantytown on the Champs de Mars park in downtown Port-au-Prince, says the rain that leaked through her makeshift tent on Wednesday night made her grieve more for the two children she lost in the quake when their house collapsed. To comfort...
...sailors faced brutal weather during their races. While Saturday’s downpour was bad, the light wind on both days proved worse...
...field was still soaked from the previous day’s downpour, but that didn’t stop Harvard from creating chances right from the start...
After a two-decade drought of good news, AIDS-vaccine researchers are finally dancing under the first raindrops of hope. It's not a downpour by any means or even a soaking shower, but it's something. At the end of a six-year vaccine field trial--the largest ever conducted--scientists have their first successful immunization against...
...Petraeus, speaking to an annual Marine Corps Association Foundation dinner on July 30, praised the leathernecks while taking tongue-in-cheek shots at both the Army and the Air Force. "A soldier is trudging through the muck in the midst of a downpour with a 60-pound rucksack on his back," Petraeus began. "'This is tough,' he thinks to himself. Just ahead of him trudges an Army Ranger with an 80-pound pack on his back. 'This is really tough,' he thinks. And ahead of him is a Marine with a 90-pound pack on, and he thinks to himself...