对于克鲁格曼关于美国中西部干旱的言论，作者有何评论？

What is the author's comment on Krugman's claim about the current drought in America's Midwest?

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由于他是在中西部发表演讲，他决定先说明美国历史上最严重的地震不是发生在加利福尼亚或阿拉斯加，而是1811年在密苏里州的新马德里。

Since he was speaking in the Midwest, he decided to begin by noting that the most severe earthquake in American history took place not in California or Alaska but at New Madrid, Missouri in 1811.

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相比这个来自美国中西部爱荷华州、悄悄改变了世界的乡村男孩，几乎没人能做得更多更好。

Few people have quietly changed the world for the better more than this rural lad from the midwestern state of Iowa in the United States.

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In Ruxton's Life in the Far West there's an Indian who gets red all over blushing because he got so many scalps and he runs like hell into the plains to glory over his deeds in hiding.

在《卢克斯顿的生活》里在美国中西部有一个印第安人,他因为得了太多头皮而全身涨得通红,拼命跑到草原里来藏起他的荣誉。

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So this city is not a city in New England, it's a city in the Midwest, where everything's flat and the roads just go completely straight.

所以这不是在新英格兰的城市,它是美国中西部的城市,那里都是平坦而笔直的路

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