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...hole, a neatly squared-off, rectangular cavity of 16 gray-brown acres. On May 30, in a ceremony to be attended by thousands of recovery workers, uniformed officers and family members of the victims, an honor guard will carry a flag-draped stretcher out of the pit. With that, the search for bodily remains will effectively end. The fire fighters and construction workers who have raked through the dirt for shoes and fingers, for any last trace of the dead, are going home...
...Thesiger's Bedouin guides shared their few dates and salty desert well water with everyone they encountered. Luckily, the fare in the cities is more abundant. Omani delicacies include shrimp, dried fish, lentils and raisin-spiked basmati rice and tender spiced mutton, smoked for three days in an underground pit. But even that tradition is evolving. "We used to wrap the meat in banana leaves," says my host, a young Omani woman. "But now in Muscat we wrap it in foil...
...highly effective cradle-to-cradle system of nutrient flow and metabolism, in which the very concept of 'waste' does not exist," they write. In other words, things shouldn't be made in the first place if they will ultimately become useless junk. Instead of ending up in a pit, they should become a cradle?fodder or springboard?for some new creation...
...welcoming 10-room inn done over in an austere '50s style. Soak your tired feet in its flow-through system of three spring-fed mineral pools, and say hello to Hector, a wirehaired terrier rescued by manager Nancy Morgan from the surrounding desert. (The lobby fire pit, done over as a tile fountain, is Hector's unofficial water bowl.) Better yet, stay in town--at L'Horizon, where Marilyn Monroe always took Room 3C, or at Herbert Burns' 1957 Orbit In, which has been meticulously restored and impeccably decorated with furnishings by mid-century icons Charles and Ray Eames, Eero...
...come upon Freud and C.S. Lewis as sources to pit against each other...