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...more implausible sights i've ever seen was a 114-room resort hotel on a beautiful, palm-studded strand of white beach...
...grew 87% in the same period). Developers working in the U.S.'s four major deserts--California's Mojave, Arizona's Sonoran, Texas and New Mexico's Chihuahuan and Nevada and Utah's Great Basin--can't build houses fast enough. In the town of La Quinta, Calif., southeast of Palm Springs, property prices jumped 48% last year, and new-home buyers have to go on waiting lists or hope to win a developer's lottery for the right to buy a small patch of desert...
...idea of treating the desert gently, pioneered by forward-thinking planners like Huckelberry, is finally starting to catch on. "The conservation issue has just exploded," says Mike Chedester, education curator for the Living Desert University in Palm Desert, Calif. The program began only three years ago, and now he runs 124 courses a year on desert ecology and xericulture, or gardening with desert plants. "We have many students who come out to the desert, buy a home prelandscaped with lawns that need watering two or three times a day, and after a while they realize it doesn't make sense...
Perfect Date Now: A date’s exciting if something forbidden is going on. Or a really nice hotel in Hawaii with nice wine, a veranda at sunset, palm trees and Egyptian cotton sheets...
...HUPD officer was dispatched to MAC to investigate the theft of an unsecured and unattended brown laptop carrying bag, silver eyeglasses, a silver palm pilot with black keyboard. The stolen items were valued...