Word: desertic
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...walls of this 4th century B.C. temple, where Alexander the Great was supposedly crowned King of Egypt, have developed cracks and are in danger of falling. Egyptian officials hope to save the monument by moving it piece by piece from its present site on shifting sand in the Western Desert to firmer ground. The big question is where...
...Jordan's King Hussein discussed the prospects for Arab-Israeli peace with George Bush in Washington last week, life was decidedly less than peaceful in the monarch's desert realm. The trouble started in the southern town of Ma'an when thousands of demonstrators attacked government office buildings and burned banks to protest increases in the price of food, gasoline and other goods. The riots quickly spread to other southern towns and then to the northern city of Salt. Hussein's brother Crown Prince Hassan, whose car was pelted with stones when he visited Ma'an, blamed Islamic fundamentalists...
After killing most of the leaders, Turkish soldiers evacuated rural Armenian villages, telling the men they had to serve in the army and then working them to death in forced labor camps, Samuelian said. The women and children were then marched into the Syrian desert, where most of them died, he added...
...monopoly maintained for decades under the mailed fist of the renegade motorcycle clubs. Southern California, a nose ahead of Texas, remains the manufacturing capital of the country, with scores, if not hundreds, of clandestine operations scattered south from Orange County to San Diego and eastward into the Mojave Desert. "The absolute lock the bikers held has been broken, and it's now a wide-open game, with every player for himself," says Larry Bruce, a lean, bearded Orange County criminal lawyer and former public defender celebrated by the biker fraternity for his courtroom skills...
...best drama comes from Norman. His intensity never wavers as he portrays Lee's elaborately constructed facade of scummy, violent toughness. Lee is a hardened pioneer--one never doubts his stories of adventure in the American desert, the "true" West of this play's title. Yet behind his belching, swaggering bravado, Norman allows Lee's well-concealed dream of respectability and acceptance to leak through his psychological defenses...