In Pakistan's populated plains, replacing kerosene imports with indigenous sunshine using small solar micro-grids could reduce the energy bills of the rural poor, increase their incomes and quality of life, and end the scourge of kerosene fires and pollution.
If there is a hell below, you'd probably be willing to risk the scourging of eternal fire if this were the house band.
Pressed behind a sheet of glass were three blades of ryegrass infected with deep purple fingers of Claviceps purpurea, the fungal precursor to LSD and the mold responsible for the medieval scourge of Saint Anthony's Fire.
Pressed behind a sheet of glass were three blades of ryegrass infected with deep purple fingers of Claviceps purpurea, the fungal precursor to LSD and the mold responsible for the medieval scourge of Saint Anthony's Fire.
A likable but fiercely principled, combative character whose penetrating gaze can burn through the unwary like a laser beam, he is now a highly visible spokesman for the British music establishment and more: a national scourge of mediocrity and compromise, firing broadsides at the art world for its commercialism and at the government for everything from cultural vacuity to the war in Iraq.
Mr Woodhead, chief scourge of educational excuse making, is still under fire.
To the north of Russia's black earth fields, the heat kindled another typical scourge of hot summers in the country: peat bog fires.
Mr. Gingrich twice rose from irrelevance this campaign season, firing up voters as a scourge of liberal pieties, especially in debates, but it is hard to imagine another road back.
PORTLAND, OREGON Red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) are a scourge of the American South, parts of Australia, and even China, causing billions of dollars of damage annually to crops, livestock, and human health.
