Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outsiders, the very name Sinai conjures up wilderness and desolation. But to some 5,000 Israeli settlers, the startlingly beautiful desert has offered tempting development possibilities, from innovative agricultural communes among the sand dunes near the Mediterranean to the tourist centers along the superb beaches of the Red Sea coast. For them, giving up the last of the Sinai will be a traumatic experience. Many are already bitter and confused. Says Sara Feifels, 40, a Sinai settler since 1974: "When we heard about Camp David, it was like someone saying our child was dying. I went through a period like...
...national preserves like the huge (1,100 sq. mi.) Big Bend National Park are protected by federal law, they are nonetheless havens for botanical bootleggers. "We don't know the numbers of cacti that are coming out of the state," sighs Dennie Miller, executive director of the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute. "It could be a million a month...
According to Phoenix Police Detective Richard Fuqua, the men then drove 50 miles to an isolated desert area and hurled Suzanne off a cliff. They heard her moaning and climbed down to her side. She pleaded with them to leave her alone because, she said, "I'm dying anyway." The response was swift. "Damn right you are," one of the men said, and picked up a large rock and crushed her head to still her sounds...
...Exodus-about the 13th century B.C.-the Philistines had not yet established themselves in the coastal region around Gaza. Now after nearly ten years' digging in the Gaza Strip, Archaeologist Trude Dothan, 57, of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, has found indications that the Israelites went into the desert to elude not the Philistines but the very people from whom they were escaping-Egyptians. The evidence: the remains of a large Egyptian community just south of Gaza that flourished during the reign of Moses' putative foe, the Pharaoh Ramses...
...nation's largest and most majestic mountain range. Towering above the Smokies and the Adirondacks, higher than the Rockies, nearly as long as the French, Swiss, and Italian Alps combined, the Sierras form a land of light. Snow-splashed peaks of shining white granite rise jaggedly above the desert to the east. To the west, forests of pine and redwoods and roll to meet the San Joaquin...