Word: arid
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...style as elegantly as he: the dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who's been up three nights straight doing things that would excite anyone but him. These art films won international success because of his effortless allure. La Notte, with its blank walls and arid stares, was withal an essay in star quality. We could happily watch Marcello being unhappy, doing anything or nothing. He was charisma in lethargy...
...arid badlands of northern Ethiopia's Hadar region have long been a fossil-hunter's paradise. It was there, two decades ago, that paleontologists unearthed the celebrated Lucy, a primitive ancestor of modern humans dating back more than 3 million years. On this trip, though, an international team of scientists was on the trail of something less ancient but much more mysterious. Somewhere between 2 million and 3 million years ago, experts believe, Lucy's descendants had evolved into true humans. But despite decades of searching, scientists had yet to find a single well-dated fossil that showed...
Right now, all that sits on the Magellan site 8,000 feet high in the arid mountains of Chile are a couple of foundations and one pod-shaped skeleton...
Although the Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory rests on an arid, uninhabited mountain range 100 miles away from a city, astronomers find it an ideal spot to set up camp...
...pictures of the thriving kibbutzim in Israel, the sight of lush greenery and seemingly infinite groves of oranges and olives in what was a combination of malaria-infested swamps and barren dessert before Israeli Independence was achieved. Why were there no pictures of the fields of green in previously arid areas of the Negev? Why were there no pictures of the solar heating panels on the roofs of Israeli houses and other technological achievements which mark the modern Jewish state...