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Miro Cohen stayed up all night searching for two missing 14-year-olds. The sheep farmer who doubles as security officer for the small West Bank settlement of Tekoa figured Yossi Ishran and Kobi Mendel had just gotten lost as they hiked through the desert. Then, at 5:30 a.m., his walkie-talkie crackled with terrible news: the boys had been found dead. "Were they shot or stabbed?" Cohen asked. The caller hesitated. "It's worse than that," he said. "Come and see, Miro...
...Southwestern U.S. Recent maneuvers by Marines slowed by requirement to ensure safety of desert tortoises during troops' 170-mile trek...
...neglect or not, Americans got used to plenty of quick-fix sympathy from Big Bad Bill, whether it was tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, dispatching Bill Richardson to roam the desert to lean on OPEC or just a lot of lip-biting over prices at the pump...
...pictures of his 26 children and five wives above the kitchen table and says, "That is my brag wall." At 52, Green is not ready to stop bragging. Three more children are on the way. A self-proclaimed "fundamentalist Mormon," Green lives with his extensive family in the remote desert of western Utah. He believes he is carrying out God's will with his polygamous lifestyle...
...reminded me of a trip I took in 1999 to one of China's most remote villages, Kashgar, which is across the Gobi desert from the rest of China. Three young boys were sitting in the back of a coffee shop at a computer, and they told me they were on the net. I tried to type in TIME.com and then CNN.com, but got messages saying they were blocked. Then one of the kids pushed me aside, typed in something, and TIME.com and then CNN.com popped up. I asked what he did. He said, "We know how to go through...