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Drought is not the only enemy. Rain can be just as devastating. When the spring rains came to Ethiopia this March, they broke all known records. Ten inches fell in some sections in three days (compared with one-tenth inch last spring). The torrents washed away vital crops and thousands of tons of top soil. In Wallo province, worst hit by the famine, the deluge swept away villages and roads, overturned supply trucks and dangerously delayed relief efforts...
...threat." A study conducted for the Ford Foundation by Atomic Physicist Theodore B. Taylor and Arms Control Expert Mason Willrich makes the point even more strongly. In "Nuclear Theft: Risks and Safeguards," Taylor and Willrich report that amateur bombmakers could probably put together weapons as small as one-tenth of a kiloton (equivalent to the explosive force of 100 tons of TNT). Such bombs, says Taylor, would be powerful enough to topple the twin towers of Manhattan's 110-story World Trade Center or destroy the U.S. Capitol building...
...born there. My family has been there since 1896. I got more votes from Riverside than Walter Sullivan even though Walter's family has been in the area as long as mine. Al Vellucci got 36 (count them) votes down here, not even a tenth of what I got. Not even, as it happens, as many votes as I got in his Ward...
...team will conclude its highly successful season this afternoon at Wheaton against a solid Wheaton seven. Radcliffe is in quest of its tenth consecutive dual meet victory
Jimmy Springate, the consistent sophomore miler, hit 4:14.6 to win the event with Jeff Campbell running a tenth of a second off the pace for number two honors...