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...also served to focus attention on the potential of "native" (as opposed to imported) pollinators. "We need to remember that tens of thousands of other species have been out there all along, working shifts around the clock," says Pollinators co-author Nabhan, director of science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum...
...among the Iraqi people, says TIME Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe. "Under the circumstances, there is a lot of tension within the society," Marlowe says. "People are starving to death in this enormous prison state. The only way out of the country is to drive 12 hours across the desert to Jordan. And Saddam keeps a hangman on duty 24 hours a day." Marlowe also cautions that there are at least three reported coup attempts each year, many of which are unfounded rumors floated by Saddam's enemies to create an air of instability. "We try to take these reports...
Director Emmerich gives the movie the solid, confident feel of a good adventure, using his locations to the full, idiosyncratic thrill-value of each. These lead to striking shots of a desert near a military base and several confused urban crowd scenes. In the beginning of other sequences, the screen bursts into white, as July 4th draws nigh. The story, written by director Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, has a handy way of faithfully returning to the bits of exposition and information dropped along the way. The drunken pilot (Randy Quaid) whom we see being teased early...
...whom the fantastic is as real as it is to Gibson. "I can't get him to watch a classic western on television," Littlefield says and repeats this recent conversation. Son: "So let me get this straight. The horse doesn't fly?" Father: "No, it just rides across the desert." Son: "I'm outta here...
There are the beaches, the long stretches of freeways, the weather, the relaxed atmosphere. It has Los Angeles' benefits without its distractions, and oasis in the Southern California desert...