Word: camels
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About an hour outside Houston, at the end of a dirt road, sits a rambling ranch house where peacocks, emus and even a camel wander in the yard. It's hardly what you would expect the U.S. national training center for gymnastics to look like. But this is gym HQ because Bela and Martha Karolyi live here. Once a month, they open their 2,000-acre spread to a few elite gymnasts in an effort to return the U.S. to the glory of 1996. That was the year Martha coached the U.S. women's squad--the Magnificent Seven...
...chase the sticky taste from your mouth, what you need is a breath of dry, bracing air. Which a movie with a silly title--The Story of the Weeping Camel--and a lovely spirit provides. Set in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, it basically offers a glimpse into the hard, warm lives of the region's nomadic herders. But like the old, artlessly arranged documentaries of Robert Flaherty, it also tells a little story, about a camel who rejects her newborn calf--possibly because its fur is white. The family that owns it lives in patient harmony with the creatures...
...Story of the Weeping Camel...
...ultra-efficient regional service center and tourist destination that benefits from the innovative yet unobtrusive hand of a benevolent leader. In Dubai that would be Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ambitious Crown Prince whose dreams for Dubai leave those of most other gulf princes in the camel age. "They have been bold, and they have been strategic," acknowledges Sheik Mohammed, but he adds, "I have achieved only 10% of my visions." Dubai turned to tourism because oil and gas represent only 17% of its GDP, and those resources are expected to run dry, or nearly, in the next...
...horrifying extremes of exposure, hunger and thirst (King is especially good on the gruesome physiology of dehydration) and were eventually taken as slaves by the Bou Sbaa, a tribe of nomadic Arabs who scratched out a perilous living in the Sahara, trading and feuding and drinking surprising amounts of camel urine. Seen through Riley's eyes, the Sahara is a nightmare looking-glass world, where camels are sacred and men wash their faces with sand. It couldn't have been more alien if he had been captured by Klingons, but Riley manages to form a kind of friendship with...