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AFRICA, Terrain
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High in hell: this is a travel story. This is a drug story. This is an epic, drug-fueled travel story about chewing psychotropic foliage in the worst place on earth. Are you ready? Let's go.(Travel narrative)
Esquire
; ... ragged-looking dudes wearing sarongs is sprinting across the run way toward the plane. The good news is that these men seem to be unarmed. The bad news is that they look really pissed off. There are about fifty of them, and they seem to be chasing ...
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Crustal contribution to the genesis of Ethiopian plateau rhyolitic ignimbrites: Basalt and rhyolite geochemical provinciality
Journal of the Geological Society
; Abstract: The Ethiopian continental flood basalt province contains large volumes of felsic eruptive rocks (>6 X 10^sup 4^ km3) overlying, and sometimes interlayered with the upper parts of the flood basalt sequence. Rb-- Sr isochron ages (30.60 0.79 Ma for Lima Limo and 30.17 0.54 Ma for Wegel
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Global warming sends troops of baboons on the run: Rising temperatures and humans encroaching on grasslands are endangering the Ethiopian primates.(World)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Philip Smucker Special to The Christian Science Monitor DEBRE LIBANOS, ETHIOPIA -- Curling his upper lip and flashing a set of shiny white teeth, the gelada baboon snatched another bite of grass and watched his harem dive over the cliff face. The entire clan of a dozen monkeys tumbled over
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Combating the destruction of Ethiopia's archaeological heritage. (News & Notes).(site of May Adrasha)
Antiquity
; During November 2001, a joint American-British-Ethiopian archaeological team under the direction of Niall Finneran undertook a multi-period archaeological landscape survey of the region of Inda Selassie in the western administrative zone of Tigrai, northern Ethiopia (FIGURE 1, overleaf). Building
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Living the High Life
Natural History
; The mountaintop environment of the Andes harbors a Noah's ark of previously undocumented species. Wind-driven hail lashes Preston Sowell and me as we top a 17,500-foot ridge in Peru's Cordillera Vilcanota. An avalanche thunders from a slope above-or was that real thunder? This close to the clouds,
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Lesser-spotted Africa
Evening Standard - London
; Some want their Africa with all mod cons en suite, their big game followed by big gins and tonics. Then there are those - with sturdy walking boots, and spirit to match who'd prefer a lesser-trekked slice of the continent. NICK REDMAN rounds up trips for the intrepid INDEPENDENT Africa specialist
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(book reviews)
History Today
; The longer-standing readers of History Today will vividly remember the changes of appearance and character imparted to the magazine by Michael Crowder during his brief editorship from 1979 to 1981. It emerged from his treatment larger, glossier and, above all, globalised in its coverage. Michael
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Long-range forecasting of the Nile River flows using climatic forcing
Journal of Applied Meteorology
; ABSTRACT Correlation analysis is used to determine the linear relationship between the Nile River flows and leading climatic indicators, such as SST and precipitation, in an effort to establish a basis for quantitative long-term streamflow prediction. The analysis of the lead-lag correlations
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Use of ENSO information in medium- and long-range forecasting of the Nile floods
Journal of Climate
; ABSTRACT The natural variability in the annual flow of the Nile is significantly regulated by the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). In this paper, several sources of information are combined, including ENSO, rainfall over Ethiopia, and the recent history of river flow in the Nile, in order to
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