Word: gobi
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...chase the sticky taste from your mouth, what you need is a breath of dry, bracing air. Which a movie with a silly title--The Story of the Weeping Camel--and a lovely spirit provides. Set in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, it basically offers a glimpse into the hard, warm lives of the region's nomadic herders. But like the old, artlessly arranged documentaries of Robert Flaherty, it also tells a little story, about a camel who rejects her newborn calf--possibly because its fur is white. The family that owns it lives in patient harmony with the creatures...
...attached to it, ignited the rockets and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. With technology having improved significantly since then, the Chinese are on the verge of sending a Long March 2F rocket hurtling into space from a secret launch facility near the Gobi Desert. The payload: Shenzhou (divine vessel), a capsule carrying China's first astronaut. The mission: enter a low Earth orbit, circle the globe 14 times, then parachute to a landing zone on the Mongolian steppe. The goal: elevate China into the exclusive ranks of spacefaring nations...
...police insisted it was a model bust. They'd stopped a taxi on its way into the industrial city of Lanzhou on the fringe of the Gobi Desert. While some officers pointed their guns at driver Jing Aiguo's temple, others retrieved from the back seat of the car nine plastic sacks containing three kilos of heroin. Jing had never run afoul of the law before, but the police?then engaged in one of China's periodic "Strike Hard" crime crackdowns?quickly obtained his confession. After a one-hour trial, the judge announced his sentence: death...
...countdown has begun. this fall, china will send a Long March 2F rocket hurtling into space from a remote launch facility near the Gobi Desert. The payload: Shenzhou, or "Divine Vessel," a capsule carrying China's first astronauts. The mission: enter a low Earth orbit for up to a week, then parachute back to a landing zone on the Mongolian steppe. The goal: elevate China into the exclusive ranks of spacefaring nations...
...trip through Siberia, Kieran befriended a German backpacker going to work with children in Mongolia and managed to escape from a man he believed to be a member of the Russian mob. He then boarded a train to Mongolia, followed by a 35-hour bus ride through the Gobi desert to Beijing. In this bus, which Kieran describes as the “modern equivalent of a slave galley,” the passengers lay in four-level bunks. They slept with their hands shielding their faces to keep their noses from slamming against the higher bunk when...