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...ride for hours through the barren Nevada desert. When the Deep Springs van picks you up in Lida Junction, it climbs over the easternmost peaks of the Sierra Nevada, into California, and descends into the Deep Springs Valley, population 42--the students and faculty of the college, plus a few hundred head of cattle...
After two years in "the valley," most students enter elite four-year universities as juniors to get their degrees...
When they arrive in the valley, most Deep Springs students can't tell alfalfa from arugula. But the learning begins immediately...
...Since January it has staged ambushes on Serb police, provoking reprisals. The killings and the sudden emergence of the UCPMB bear a striking resemblance to the maneuverings three years ago of the Kosovo Liberation Army. "This is an unfinished war," says an Albanian editor in Pristina. Indeed, the Presevo Valley is expected to share the top of the agenda when Kosovo's NATO commander briefs the U.N. Security Council this week in New York City...
...Andrew Purvis/Pristina. With reporting by Anthee Carassava/Presevo Valley...