Word: desertion
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...same time, Bonnaroo and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, held in a polo field in the desert outside of Palm Springs, California, were attracting huge crowds to multi-day marathons that strived to create an alt-culture atmosphere. Getting their cues from European music festivals like England's Glastonbury, Italy's Evolution Festival, Denmark's Roskilde and Norway's Lillehammer, U.S. promoters have realized that once-a-year mega-events have financial and logistical advantages. Multi-day music fests not only allow bands to reach more people in less time for more money, but the scale of such...
That's part of a national trend. Zoo directors routinely phase out species that don't thrive in the local environment. The ultimate example: the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, outside Tucson, which houses 300 animal species and 1,200 kinds of plants on 21 acres of desert. Unlike conventional zoos, the museum doesn't even try to take on species that are not native to the area because its mission is not to give visitors a snapshot of wildlife everywhere but to give the full story of a single ecology. "It has a completely different mind-set than most zoos...
William Arrowsmith once lamented that precious few rewards exist at research universities for good teaching. “Universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want to restore a Druid priesthood, you cannot do it by offering prizes for Druid-of-the-Year. If you want Druids, you must grow forests.” We all know that it takes decades to grow a forest, and no institution can afford to wait decades to create an environment in which great courses will spontaneously emerge and good teaching will thrive...
...their grim mission. The 72 bodies have been sprayed with disinfectant, wrapped in shrouds and buried. Sheik Jamal thanks the gravediggers, shaking their hands. "I will be in touch," he says. "I'll call and let you know how many [graves] we need next week." Stretching out into the desert, the graveyard is unlikely to run out of space. And since the killings of Iraqis show no sign of slowing, Sheik Jamal will not run out of bodies either...
...global oil king. "Venezuela has never been this well positioned in the world," says Ram?rez. Nor, it seems, has OPEC - and neither Ram?rez nor Ch?vez are likely to let their Middle Eastern counterparts forget that it was Venezuela that helped pull the cartel out of the low-price desert...