Word: desertion
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...Kisho Kurokawa, the innovative Japanese architect who designed Kuala Lumpur's terminal with flowing buttresses reminiscent of desert tents, points out that Arabic sources of design harmony were more important to him than Asian ones. While Singapore's top-rated Changi Airport is praised by Malaysian feng shui guru Joey Yap for entry roads and fronting lawns that properly gather up pools of surrounding qi, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore states categorically that it "does not take feng shui into account" in airport designs...
...only a nightmare of course, but Cheney can count on a frigid reception in the hot Saudi desert nonetheless. The signs of deep Saudi anger and panic over how Washington has bungled Iraq have been surfacing for the last two months. In March King Abdallah hosted Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who in normal times is a man whose head Abdallah would prefer to lop off than talk to. Two weeks later, at an Arab summit, King Abdallah called the American presence in Iraq an "illegal occupation," the same description the Iranians use. In April, King Abdallah reportedly cancelled a visit...
...wanders on to the pier and stops to read the antigovernment slogans at the tent camp, unaware of the standoff over the historic site. "For Shanghai, Hong Kong is just a business center," says the man, a 31-year-old airline employee. "Somebody told me Hong Kong is a desert of culture...
...more hours across scorched mountains and rocky desert, and we are in Iriba, the logistics base in northeast Chad for six camps of refugees from Darfur. Aid workers there tell me that as horrific as the suffering in Darfur is today, it is almost surely going to get worse. "The water is going. The firewood is gone. The land has lost its ability to regenerate," says Palouma Ponlibae, an agriculture and natural-resources officer for the relief agency CARE. "The refugees are going to have to move. There's going to be nothing here to sustain life...
...back into Sudan. "It's the time of mangoes and guavas," he says. I shake my head, and he wanders off. Watching him leave, Diar tells me Adam is obsessed with going home. Sometimes, when the headaches are bad, he disappears for days. He runs out into the the desert and back toward...