Word: deserter
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Kashgar is about as far as one can get from the Chinese capital of Beijing and still be in China. In fact, there is little to indicate one is still in China. Most of the people in this desert town are Uighurs, an Islamic minority group that has clashed again and again with rule of China's majority Han ethnicity. The land surround the city is brown and bare save for irrigated orchards and fruit fields. The white caps of the Pamirs loom in the distance. Women walk through the streets in headscarves, sometimes fully covered from...
...team-building exercises or charitable endeavors - Microsoft entered three top executives from their Seattle headquarters in this year's Gobi race, known as the Gobi March, to raise money for the Save the Children Foundation. But most, like 60-year-old American Robyn Metcalf, who has done two desert races, are there to "combine sports with the opportunity to see other parts of the world, while also meeting people who are extending their mental and physical boundaries...
MESSAGE on the airplane used by Richard Branson to reach the Mojave Desert, where the British billionaire unveiled the craft (right) that would provide the world's first commercial spaceflight...
...city where the Rat Pack partied, Elvis honeymooned and Eisenhower swung the only hole in one of his life. Palm Springs, California's fabled desert oasis, has long been a winter playground for the Hollywood set; the city lies just 100 miles (160 km) east of Los Angeles. But it is also home to an extensive array of beautifully preserved Modernist structures that have turned this golf-and-cocktails resort town into a must-see destination for devotees of architecture...
...conflict - mirrors, pans, house keys and a jewelry box found alongside their skeletons in a cave where they hid. "The last people to touch these items before our colleagues in Israel's museums," says Opper, "were the people awaiting Hadrian's onslaught." These humble objects - perfectly preserved in the desert heat - may be quotidian, yet they offer as resonant an insight into Hadrian's world as the exquisitely refined statues that he commissioned to memorialize the love he had lost...