Word: desertic
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...grew up on a desert island populated by a malevolent alien race. The only time I ever got away was one hundred minutes at a time, at the movies...
During a month at Mazlak camp, in the empty desert outside Herat, Hawaneen and his family received 15 lbs. of wheat and a handful of moldy dates. When his son first became ill with pneumonia, Hawaneen waited from dawn to dusk outside the camp clinic, along with hundreds of others stricken with tuberculosis, measles and bronchitis. At last it was Hawaneen's turn. "All they gave me for my son was this," he said helplessly, clutching a plastic strip that once held 12 aspirins...
...epicenter of the earthquake lies in Gujarat's western-most region, where the cotton fields of Saurashtra give way to the dusty plains of the rann, an 18,000-sq-km expanse that once was a marshland on the shores of the Arabian Sea but is now practically desert. The sparse vegetation is more brown than green. This inhospitable terrain is home to the Kutchi people, former nomads renowned for their hardiness. They, along with Gujaratis from the interior, have fashioned a sturdy local economy from the only two gifts nature has bestowed on this land: salt and sea ports...
Arafat is a civil engineer by training, and he sees himself as more of a plodder than a brinksman. He will tell you about his long march, starting in '48 salvaging World War II rifles in the Egyptian desert. Yet the allure of a knockout punch has always proved his undoing. He envies the F.L.N. triumph over the French in Algeria, Khomeini's thundering revolution in Iran. His Palestine Liberation Organization gambits to become the de facto leader in Jordan and later in Lebanon dragged both countries into civil war. In the Gulf War, he bet on Saddam. This...
Last week the second President Bush took his first whack at the problem: 24 U.S. and British warplanes slammed five Iraqi radar and communications centers that had become a danger to the planes patrolling the no-fly zones imposed on Iraq after Operation Desert Storm. The military objectives were easy enough to accomplish. Pentagon officials believe the target sites to the south of Baghdad were nicely "degraded," and all planes returned safely to base...