Word: desertic
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Toymakers are selling nostalgia and reality themes -- sometimes together. Hasbro is bringing back the original foot-high G.I. Joe. Today he speaks Chinese and Arabic and wears Desert Storm fatigues. Watch for a Saddam doll that won't quit...
...term, the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and the most dangerous incident of the cold war, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Lyndon Johnson's presidency became a battle of wills between Johnson and Ho Chi Minh. Johnson lost. Jimmy Carter found himself squared off against the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Desert One, site of the failed attempt to rescue the U.S. hostages in 1980, was Carter's Bay of Pigs -- and, as it turned out, his Waterloo...
...American workers are not properly educated, there will nothing left to Buy American except Desert Storm trading cards and McDonald's hamburgers...
...instance, he cites global warming as the reason why an egg can be fried on some streets in the Southwest. Gore actually starts the book by telling the foreboding story of the Aral Sea, now no longer a sea but a desert--thanks to the abuses of humans (there are even pictures to prove it). Gore continues his list of horror by relating numerous stories about cultures around the world that are self-destructing...
...Baghdad as a kind of personal army. Nor is it certain that American air power could turn the tide -- or even that it could be fully employed. The U.S. has only about 150 ground-based warplanes left in the area, less than a tenth of those that flew in Desert Storm, and some of those operate out of Incirlik in Turkey. The Turks might never let them take off. Ankara's top priority is to prevent formation of anything resembling an independent Kurdish state inside Iraq that inevitably would try to break off a piece of Turkey; Turkish troops already...