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August 01, 2012 Columns » Gene Lyons

Lyons: No denying drought

by Gene Lyons

Of all the ways nature has to kill you, drought may be the cruelest. The desiccation proceeds day after punishing day. The afternoon sun pounds the earth like a brazen hammer. As I write, the temperature here in Perry County, Arkansas has reached…

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