It usually dries up in the summer.

Clothing hangs out to dry between tents in row A. Katsikas, northern Greece.

It's sweeping the world.

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

Today, popular rebellion and political change have spread throughout the region.

17th centuryThe years around 1620 saw another period of famine sweep across Europe.

Banditry continued to plague Darfur in May, and there are indications that those criminal acts are increasingly being committed by rebel and militia fighters, in addition to common criminals acting without a political agenda.

The problem is that all over the west now it looks like this.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

NEW YORK A wave of fiscal austerity is rushing over Europe and America.

This movement is not quite sweeping the world, but it is making a difference.

But how can it be applied to the mess now in Syria?

At 14 minutes, I had these awful contractions, like this urge to breathe.

But Turkey cannot be indifferent to the tragedy engulfing its southern neighbors.

You can see the Lispenard Meadows draining down through here, through what is TriBeCa now, and the beaches that come up from the Battery, all the way to 42nd St.

Harvests may halve and rivers on which irrigation and hydropower depend may become a mere trickle.

At present, the road, which is prone to washouts owing to the frequent storms that sweep over the island, must be repaired constantly.

Dania, of My Chaos, discussed what she feels as a religious fever sweeping the society, and in turn, the blogpshere

Another kind of wave is also sweeping the country Complaints and protests across Mauritanian cities against the shortage of drinking water. Lack of drinking water is causing widespread protests in Mauritania.

This date 60 years ago witnessed the final defeat of the Nazi forces, which had been rampaging through the European continent.

It is difficult to exaggerate the strange sentiment in the West which one might call Palestine romanticism.

LONDON Europe s reaction to the historic revolutions in North Africa has vacillated between exhilaration and fear.

If relatively secular Turkish society could be swept by a surge of anti American sentiment, so, too, can Indonesia society.

So far, anti American rhetoric has been remarkably muted in the uprisings sweeping the Middle East.

Cyprus, of course, is just the latest country to be hit by the economic crisis surging through the Mediterranean.

AMMAN There seem to be a thousand and one interpretations of the changes sweeping across the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.

Published blogger and copywriter Constantina Delimitrou paints a glum picture of the financial insecurity gripping the minds and bodies of Greeks

Only when more parents, teachers, and community leaders behave likewise will recruitment of terrorists dry up and law enforcement authorities receive full cooperation from the populations they police.

From the EU s point of view, the turmoil engulfing the Arab world couldn t have come at a worse time.

If only such practices were used to tackle the vast majority of the problems that overwhelm Somalia.

The Famine of 1866 1868 was the last famine in Finland and northern Sweden, and the last major naturally caused famine in Europe.

At the same time, the Middle East is awash with modern communications, much of it with an anti Western slant.

Christian IV first initiated the policy of expanding Denmark's overseas trade, as part of the mercantilist wave that was sweeping Europe.

We are also prepared to consider the impact of issuing special drawing rights with a view to eliminating the instability and financial imbalances that are overwhelming the developing world.

Heat waves, droughts, floods, forest fires, retreating glaciers, polluted rivers, and extreme storms buffet the planet at a dramatically rising rate, owing to human activities.

BERKELEY Fiscal profligacy did not cause the sovereign debt crisis engulfing Europe, and fiscal austerity will not solve it.

But several eurozone members did not keep their word, and the crisis engulfing their sovereign debt now endangers the survival of the eurozone as a whole.

Indeed China mania, a mixture of hopes, but mostly fears, is sweeping the world due to China s rapid economic rise.

The United States put 500,000 troops into Vietnam in the 1960 s, but withdrew before North Vietnam overran the South in 1975.

On the one hand, despite the economic crisis engulfing neighboring Europe, Turkey remains the world s second fastest growing economy, after China.

On the eve of the financial crisis, other Gulf states had started to look to Dubai for insight into how they might diversify their economies and continue to thrive when the oil wells run dry.

Moreover, viewed from a wider perspective, economic and social turbulence on Europe s southern periphery will constitute a geopolitical risk.