Word: deserts
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...Song. "Adventure-travel packages and risky sports such as bungee jumping might want to use harder names." When a product like the Scirocco folds, it might have been done in not just by the nonintuitive pronunciation of the name (shi-rock-o), but also by its definiton: a hot desert wind. That's a double-dose of danger that could simply be too much for safety-conscious consumers. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...departure from Tangiers, his travels across Africa and the Middle East, and his arrival at the Kaaba. The rumor of promise in telling a story like this is quickly squashed by the fact that much of this trip consisted of traveling through hundreds of miles of featureless desert. Thankfully, the sheer inertia of this truth keeps “Journey to Mecca” from exceeding 45 minutes, but it doesn’t stop those particular 45 minutes from being utterly sterile. It’s also worth mentioning that every minute is on an IMAX screen...
...Journey to Mecca” does its best to say otherwise. Ibn’s story is recalled with a flaccidity which could be called reductive if it seemed to serve any purpose to begin with—the young traveler is subjected to the expected travails of any desert-sojourn: sand storms, bandits and the search for water. With the help of his trusty, rough-around-the-edges Bedouin sidekick, however, he braves the obstacles and reaches Mecca, much to the expectation...
...however, one question does present itself, to which the film never provides an answer: what is this film doing on an IMAX screen? Executive producer Taran Davies ’93, promoting the film, claimed that the camel caravan used to transport crew and equipment through the desert was the largest to pass through that region. [SEE CORRECTIONS BELOW] But you’d never know it. Most of the shots in “Journey to Mecca” are dialogue shots—closed in on Ibn and his companion—or utterly blank desert topography, which...
...Dhabi uses more water per person than anywhere else. There are no plans to put a price on carbon, as even the U.S. is considering. Lehmann and others would prefer to see Masdar spend its billions greening Abu Dhabi itself, not building an entirely new settlement in vacant desert. "We have to have every city be an eco-city," Lehmann says...