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...Sahara, directed by Breck Eisner and starring Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, and Penélope Cruz, is based on one of a series of adventure novels written by Clive Cussler. The movie, like the books, follows the daring escapades of intrepid explorer Dirk Pitt (McConaughey), hunky marine adventurer...
...dark figures, tattered and beaten, crawl across the screen. Fighting the unforgiving desert sun, they fortuitously stumble upon a decades-old downed plane. Cut to the next scene: we find the heroes of Sahara windsurfing amidst the desolate landscape using the plane’s right wing as a makeshift sail, as good ole American rock blares in the background. And that’s when it hits you: you have no idea what’s going on, or even what movie you’re watching anymore...
...ENGLISH PATIENT A heterosexual Lawrence of Arabia starring Ralph Fiennes. Sahara, mon amour...
...industry will need many more such experts if it is to reach its potential. "Everyone's waiting for the Americans to come back in with huge amounts of money," says Livingston. "A lot of infrastructure needs to be rebuilt." At the Waha oil field, hundreds of kilometers into the Sahara from Essider's harbor, the production lines are monitored from a computer room equipped with the defunct Data General's 1982 system. "I'd say we're at least 15 years behind in technology," explains Gordon Snowdon, 55, a Briton in charge of production at the oil field's biggest...
...industry will need many more Americans if it is to reach its potential. "Everyone's waiting for the Americans to come back in with huge amounts of money," says Livingston. "A lot of infrastructure needs to be rebuilt." At the Waha oil field, hundreds of miles into the Sahara from Essider's harbor, the production lines are monitored from a computer room equipped with the defunct Data General's 1982 system. "I'd say we're at least 15 years behind in technology," explains Gordon Snowdon, 55, a Briton in charge of production at the oil field's biggest station...