Word: deserts
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...years, using techniques that have enabled modern zoos and botanical gardens to put diverse habitats together in relatively narrow confines. At the same time, they have searched the world for representative flora and fauna that can re- create five different miniature biomes, or ecosystems: rain forest, savanna, desert, ocean and marsh...
...transition zone of thorn scrub from Madagascar and Mexico leads onto a Baja California desert biome. The stream, meanwhile, meanders to the saltwater marsh (transported in sections from the Florida Everglades) that gives onto the 10.6-meter-deep (35-ft.) ocean with its own coral reef and waves that can rise as high as 1.2 meters (4 ft.). Mangroves in the marsh are host to frogs, turtles and crabs, and the ocean includes 1,000 species of plants and animals...
ENVIRONMENT: In the Arizona desert, a miniature world...
...military buildup. Every plane, ship, tank and soldier it needs to fight Iraq is in place; so are substantial Arab League forces. President Bush hesitates to order an assault that would certainly bring death to some hostages (as well as to many troops) and cause some U.S. allies to desert the anti-Iraq coalition. But Saddam Hussein offers a provocation -- perhaps killing hostages, perhaps a terrorist outrage -- that allows the U.S. to justify an attack...
...interesting analogy," says a Bush Administration official. "Like Galtieri, Saddam seems to think we are too soft to fight unless he invades Saudi Arabia. He figures we'll eventually tire of sitting in the desert and his occupation of Kuwait will become just another of the world's sore spots that remain unresolved for decades. He's wrong -- but fewer and fewer of us believe he will learn that lesson short...