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A man leans on his shovel as he stands on a dry field on the outskirts of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 2, 2008. It’s been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq, a dry spell that has devastated the country’s crucial wheat crop and created new worries about the safety of drinking water. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - It’s been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq — a dry spell that has devastated the country’s crucial wheat crop and created new worries about the safety of drinking water.