Word: desertic
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...calls himself "Dirty" Danny. All of the pieces mean to be humorous and Tony Millionaire provides several of the best of these. My favorite contribution of his reads like a devastating, thinly-veiled reference to Rall, about a vicious, self-pitying giant snake roaming around the desert seeking love from the things it devours. Other artists use Hellman as an actual character, taking part in silly adventures that inevitably end in some vulgarity...
...filmmakers is in Timia to capture the race and wedding for an episode of a new Thirteen/WNET New York and National Geographic Television documentary series called 'Africa.' The series, premiers on Sunday September 9 with a look at life on the Kenyan savanna. (Adam appears in episode two, entitled 'Desert Odyssey.') The series aims to show aspects of Africa far-removed from the famine, war and disease of popular perception. "So few people in America really know about Africa," says co-executive producer Jennifer Lawson. "I wanted to give people a better view, a more complex and comprehensive view...
...race marks the beginning of a much longer journey for Adam and 15 of the village men - a six-month-long, 1500-mile caravan trek from their home in Timia, across the desert, to the salt oasis of Bilma. After collecting a load of Bilma's salt, which still occurs in the form of upright pillars as described in the Bible, the group will head south for Nigeria, where they will sell their cargo to Hausa traders. It is an age-old example of the "comparative advantage" theory of international trade: the salt farmers, the transporters and the traders each...
...Rider III, a "ruggedized" laptop designed to take a licking and let you keep on pointing and clicking. These machines are made to boot-camp standards to resist impact, temperature extremes, rain and dust. Many have bright screens, in case you need to read e-mail under a blinding desert...
Most are bought by police, the military and hard-core industrial users--think factory-floor supervisors inputting data in a cloud of dust. But you don't need to be running a textile mill--or Desert Storm--for such computers to make sense. One estimate has U.S. businesses losing more than $1 billion in broken laptops this year, about 14% from sales divisions (that's a lot of laptops falling from overhead bins or rattling around rental cars...