Best Photos of 2002: The Natural World
STEVE LISS FOR TIME
Too Hot for Harvest
Cursed with a drought worse than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, farmers like Bob Roberts, 67, of Scottsbluff, Neb., watched their dreams of a green harvest dry up and blow away. Says Roberts: "You're looking at a sad man"
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