Word: desertic
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...cartoon in 26 years, and Disney is readying a Mickey Mouse featurette for later this year. Meanwhile, the American Multi- Cinema theater chain has begun showing old Looney Tunes shorts in all 1,700 of its movie houses. "For the past two decades I thought of animation as a desert," says Spielberg. "Suddenly what was a mirage has become an oasis...
After a morning of closed briefings, Sen. David Boren (D-Okla.), who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said if Iraq headed for Saudi Arabia and its oil fields just 250 miles across the desert, "I think it would be a direct threat to the security of this country...
...same advice applies to other lands and waters. Backpackers competing for summertime space in the famous shelters along the Appalachian Trail, from Maine to Georgia, must preregister months in advance. And it is the same for Arizona's Aravaipa Canyon, a stream-fed desert site with unique wildlife, where only 50 camping permits are granted daily...
Certainly, managing the hajj is a formidable exercise. Despite Saudi efforts to regulate where and how believers travel, some, particularly the elderly, perish each year attempting to complete the long hikes in the desert sun required by the pilgrimage, which is a must for any Muslim who is physically and financially able to make it. In recent years the month-long hajj season has become more unmanageable as the Islamic revival and the increased affordability of air tickets have swelled the annual ranks of pilgrims to 2 million or more. To handle the deluge, the Saudi government is investing...
...conventions (after New York City, Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta). More than 1.5 million convention goers visited the city last year, up from 650,000 in 1980. In June the tweedy American Booksellers Association gathered to discuss fall book lists and other literary matters beneath the blazing desert...