Word: deserted
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...Tsang made the transition from the two-year college in the California high desert to Cambridge two years ago, and he’s one of roughly 10 students, eight undergrad and two in grad school, who have made that move and now study at Harvard...
...cutting off technology is just one example of Deep Springs’ attempts to isolate itself. Strict rules and long academic terms prevent students from leaving for much of the year, and the campus is surrounded by desert on all sides...
...trains were all part of traveling aboard the Ghan, Australia's legendary outback train, during the early 20th century. Thankfully, the big skies and red dust are all appreciated from the air-conditioned side of a tinted window these days. Named after the Afghan cameleers who supplied the early desert towns, the weekly Ghan takes two nights to make the 2,979-km haul to Adelaide from Darwin. Choose between seats, budget sleepers or luxury cabins. Read more at www.gsr.com.au. HANOI TO HO CHI MINH CITY: The Thong Nhat line, once known as the "Reunification Express," arguably serves up Southeast...
...multichannel universe, but few get at the big picture like these natural opuses. The four series--set in North, Central and South America and the Antarctic--show how the geography, animals and humans of a region have affected one another. (The Central American series, for instance, connects the rugged desert landscape and the sometimes brutal native cultures: the hardy cacti provided sustenance--and a handy place to impale human sacrifices.) Part history, part anthropology, part biology, all breathtaking spectacle, the set gives new meaning to the phrase living color...
...DIED. Marian Marsh, 93, starlet of 1930s Hollywood who, in her short-lived career, won acclaim for playing innocents-memorably the milkmaid turned diva Trilby in Svengali (tag line: "All Paris desired her but Svengali owned her!"), opposite John Barrymore; in Palm Desert, California...