71.   Wetlands also have been destroyed along the Nen and Songhua rivers in the northeast, where flooding as severe as this summer is rare, the scientists said.

72.   Burns would not reveal the charges, which could be as severe as negligent homicide.

73.   But Appell said last week the injury was not as severe as first thought and she plans to run.

74.   The UN mission in Croatia is in a crisis as severe as the one for peacekeepers in Bosnia.

75.   While not as severe as the record-setting blizzard, the new storm strained clean-up crews further and could raise the death toll.

76.   While not as severe as the record-setting blizzard, the new storm was expected to strain clean-up crews further and could raise the death toll.

77.   Nowhere is the crisis as severe as the already dry provinces of southern Zimbabwe.

78.   Segwai named the six countries where food shortages were severe as Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.