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Smack in the middle of the Mojave Desert, the Las Vegas area gets around 330 days of sunshine a year. February 22, however, was not one of them...
...When I was older, she led a family backpacking expedition in California’s Lassen Park. Finding a long trail through a barren desert and up a cindercone volcano, she decided we were going to hike it. Never mind the heat. We ran out of water halfway there, but somehow made it back alive. After we collapsed from exhaustion, she announced that a trek up another mountain was in order. Her conviction didn’t waver after returning hikers informed us they had been pelted by hail near the summit. This was my aunt...
...Entertainment Weekly after-party, he debuted the video for “Flashing Lights,” directed by the legendary Spike Jonze. Instead of his usual display of egotism, Kanye is barely onscreen at all. The video opens with a Mustang parking in the middle of the desert at dusk. As the red brake lights turn off, the song breaks into its titular refrain and Playboy model Rita G exits the car dressed in fur and large black sunglasses. She promptly strips down to her expensive lingerie, then lights her clothes on fire. With flames now at her back...
...often war is condensed into meaningless Arabic numerals. It becomes place names and dates. It becomes a simple sum game of territory exchanged and penalties levied. The different wars (spoken aloud like different varieties of vegetables) acquire snappy appellations—The War on Terror, Desert Storm, The Great War, World War II—and little kids play them out in their sandboxes. War becomes a commodity sold as Hollywood movies and Toys “R” Us action figures. The cost of it, the real human cost of it all, is often forgotten.A.L. Kennedy?...
...bombing seemed to confirm fears by Israeli security chiefs that terrorists had joined thousands of Palestinians who streamed through the breach made last week in the security fence between Egypt and Gaza. The bombers' route probably took them into the Sinai, where Egypt's long and sporadically unpatrolled desert border is riddled with smugglers' trails used by Bedouin. For the right amount of money, these tribesmen are willing to bring anything into Israel - drugs, weapons, Russian prostitutes, even terrorists, say Israeli security officials. Earlier, Egyptian police in Sinai claimed to have captured two teams of Palestinian militants laden with explosives...