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...confronted with gutsy pieces tackling an array of provocative subjects - from burqas to madrasahs to militarism. He paused for a long time at Left Right, a video installation about the omnipresence of Pakistan's army by the young artist Hamra Abbas, who depicts soldiers patrolling land, sea and desert...
...restrictions are now a fact of life for the 80% of Australians who live in cities. In Adelaide, Peg Wilson and her neighbors cannot hose their gardens for more than three hours a week. "You just get used to it," she says. In a country that's already 40% desert, scientists say climate change could make many areas hotter and drier. Says David Trebeck, of the national Water Commission: "It now seems clear that climate change and global warming - whether natural or man-made - will result in less water on average...
...recent Saturday afternoon, on a desert road outside Los Angeles, a Land Rover ran into a Chevy Tahoe. Happily, nobody was hurt. That's because no one was in either...
After spending more than two years researching my book Twilight in the Desert, I am convinced that it is highly improbable that Middle Eastern oil--and particularly Saudi Arabian oil--can grow to those far higher levels. Instead there is a risk that Saudi Arabia's oil output and the rest of the Middle East's oil supply may start to decline...
Matthew Simmons is the author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons...