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Setting out from England on Sept. 2, 1979, the Transglobe Expedition tried to follow the Greenwich meridian, the imaginary line that marks 0° longitude. Fiennes and Burton, who were joined by a third explorer, Oliver Shepard, 37, for the first half of the journey, crossed the Sahara by Land Rover before meeting their ship in the Ivory Coast. In Antarctica, the three men proceeded to cross the continent, including more than 1,000 miles of previously uncharted icecap, by snowmobile in a record 66 days. After reaching the South Pole, the team ascended and descended...
...part, because of Gaddafi. Last February, he and 25 other leaders of radical and left-leaning African states engineered the recognition of the self-styled Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (S.A.D.R.) as the O.A.U.'s 51st member. That is the name used by the Polisario guerrillas in the Western Sahara...
Until the Sahara arrives over here...
Most journalists and soccer pundits, perhaps preoccupied with tiny oil-rich Kuwait's wealth, had ignored its quiet progress in soccer. Coached by the well-regarded Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, the players were briefly sequestered in the Sahara-like climate of Valladolid in north-central Spain but worked out twice daily (and prayed to Allah the requisite five times daily). They broke the monotony by appearing for carefully rehearsed "photo opportunities," dancing around their camel mascot, which sports a FIFA identity card and a team jacket...
...course, is what prompted Brooke Shields to slip into a Geoffrey Beene tuxedo bathing suit? Come to think of it, who cares why she did it? Having turned 17 last week, Brooke, the lovely duckling, has clearly grown into a long, lean swan. Later this year she embarks on Sahara, another splendor-in-the-sand epic in which she will play, for the first time, a woman. In the film, Brooke winds up racing a 1928 Packard in a trans-Sahara race. Will she bring her black-tie bathing suit? That was just for show. Personally, she prefers the informality...