Word: apricot
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...terrorism will take the U.S.-led coalition to some far-flung frontiers, but probably none more desolate than the southern shores of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan. Once a balmy oasis of apricot groves, fields of watermelon and rivers of fish so fat that each could feed a family, this is now a poisoned desert of salt and brown dust. The catalog of catastrophes that makes up one of the world's worst environmental disasters includes mankind's largest current tuberculosis epidemic and highest rates of anemia, the biggest dust bowl on earth and one of the most extreme ranges...
...pickups of every conceivable make and era, cars, mopeds and bicycles; but no camels." Many Tuareg who have shunned city life make camp with government-issue tents instead of animal skins and wooden poles. Tagella, an unleavened flatbread, is still a staple. But these days, it's dipped in "apricot jam that must rival tinned sardines as colonialism's most profound legacy to Saharan nutrition...
...Similarly, the Clinton's served an exquisite lamb encrusted in pickled lemons to the visiting king of Morocco last year, and an African-spiced ginger-and-apricot glazed lamb to South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki...
...setting is once again Leechfield, Karr's fictionally named but vividly evoked hometown in East Texas, about a 30-minute drive from the Gulf of Mexico: "Distant refinery flames flapped against the apricot sky." Karr's parents, whose Wagnerian domestic travails thundered so consistently throughout The Liars' Club, have receded to the background of this book as she tries to find her own way in the world. That fadeaway is understandable but still a shame, since Pete and Charlie Karr seem interestingly unique, and teenage anxieties...
...then there's a trendy new bastard sister to the tired tube top. These over the shoulder boulder holders by Max Mara and Plein Sud bare one sun-kissed shoulder for all admiring leches in tow. Try these in citrus colors, such as light lemon and apricot, to heighten winter pallor...