Word: sand
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High up on his camel, Adam Mahamoudane surveys the scene below him. The dry, sandy riverbed is a sea of color. Some 60 camels mill about, stirring up the dust and leaving apple-shaped footprints in the sand, while riders rest on their haunches in the shade of acacia trees. Most of the men - Tuareg nomads from the small oasis town of Timia in the West African nation of Niger - wear loose fitting, black trousers, with yellow or white edging around the hem. Over the trousers hangs a cotton robe held at the waist by a colorful belt. Many wear...
...they can be a pain. Stilettos might have been the original bad shoe, but there have been plenty since. On Earth Day 1970, a Danish yoga instructor named Anne Kals started selling Earth Shoes: the heels were lower than the toes to simulate the effect of walking on sand. (It wasn't until the hallucinogens wore off that hippies remembered the arduousness of walking on a beach.) Next came Dr. Scholl's exercise sandals, wood-soled slip-ons that promised to tone calf muscles. Gravity boots became the yuppie home-fitness system de rigueur after Richard Gere dangled from...
...election in the bag. He has dismissed warnings of diplomatic sanctions from Washington as "racist threats," ignored advice from the Commonwealth, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and brushed off the withdrawal of aid from Denmark and other European donors. "He's burying his head in the sand," says Morgan Tsvangirai, leader...
...dunes. At one point, I started running like a mad man and ripping off my clothes. When a plane passed overhead, I stared up hopelessly and imagined all the people sitting inside. To stay alive I drank my urine. Eventually I cupped a plastic bag over the hot sand and licked the condensation that collected inside...
...United States. Hajek says a 30-50-kg model will be available for sale in September. With patents granted or pending in some 60 countries, thousands of years after man first learned how to combine soda from ashes, lime from seashells and silica from beach sand to form glass, Hajek is ready to set the world of crystal manufacture on fire with his microwave furnace...