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...places in town, the Brauhaus bar-restaurant, tel: (264-64) 402 214, makes you feel as though you are in deepest Germany, but 30 years ago. Locals go there for the beer - especially the Hansa, Tafel and Windhoek lagers - and the meat, particularly wiener schnitzel and game such as oryx and kudu...
...often there’s more memory than movement. Towards the end, the action becomes rigid and rushed—a confusing wrap-up of the first two novels in the series and an off-tone set-up for the third. The arrival of characters from “Oryx and Crake,” the trilogy’s first, that make the situation especially untenable. All at once, too many characters are butting up against each other in the post-apocalyptic desert. This may be a blow to the book’s faint cautionary undertones...
...Bani Yas was once the private domain of Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and co-founder of the United Arab Emirates. He irrigated much of its barren landscape and created his very own wildlife reserve, initially for endangered regional species like the Arabian oryx and both mountain and sand gazelles, but later for many African animals, including giraffes, ostriches, elands, gemsboks, blackbucks and striped hyenas, all of which remain to this day. (See pictures of luxury private islands...
...centuries long case of mistaken identity, we've finally rounded up another suspect. The June 11 discovery of a one-year-old, one-horned deer may put Bambi in the company of the rhinoceros, the narwhal and the oryx as creatures who spawned the enduring myth of the unicorn...
...also its over-the-top luxury. Heck, even living like a bedouin can be a deluxe experience. Al Maha is set in the 225-sq-km Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve - 5% of the emirate's total land area - and is designed to resemble a bedouin camp. Endangered Arabian oryx (al maha in Arabic), desert foxes and gazelle meander around the grounds and, if you're lucky, quench their thirst in your own private pool. The spa and airy suites have gorgeous views of the desert, and there are easels, paper and pastels for those who want to capture that exact...