There are scarce hopes of political stability in the near future.
If you look at a satellite map of the Korean Peninsula, the South is lit up brightly; the North, where electricity is almost as scarce as hope, the map is almost completely black.
Although details remain scarce, Young hopes his service will replace the MP3 through a combination of a new portable music player, new compression technology and "special access" to musicians' original recordings.
But while the prospects for hope are scarce there is, none the less, one thing from which we might draw solace.
A generation ago, organizers envisioned federally guaranteed shares of the pollock catch that would create a rising tide of funds to lift up poor, isolated villages where jobs and hope are scarce.
From dusty villages overrun by poverty and violence to modern cities where jobs and hope are scarce, Samuel Aranda has been photographing African migrants who take to the sea, desperate to remake their lives.
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (1948) "I know that domestic help is scarce, but would anyone hope to enlist a servant by forcibly detaining her, to say nothing of beating and starving her?" It's the question at the heart of this mystery novel, in which two women, Marion Sharpe and her elderly mother, stand accused of kidnapping and beating a 15-year-old war orphan called Betty Kane.
NIAID's repository, meanwhile, will offer researchers high-quality, scarce reagents, which Fauci hopes will attract newcomers to the field.
Land in Nelson for farming was still scarce but it was hoped that beyond the steep hills to the southwest, good pastoral land would be found.
