It's a showdown among environmentalists out West, where proposed solar-energy plants threaten the desert ecosystem.
By Katharine Mieszkowski Jan 22, 2009
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Look beyond the sprawl and congestion of this desert state with books from Wallace Stegner, Geronimo and Barbara Kingsolver -- and an unlikely guide to the Grand Canyon.
By Stephen Amidon
June 15, 2006
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A hot ticket in Beijing: The International Conference on Women and Desertification.
By Andrew Leonard
June 5, 2006
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Mexican migrants are dying at record rates as they try to cross treacherous desert into Arizona. Critics blame the U.S. government -- and they're preparing to sue.
By James Reel
July 15, 2002
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After a fairy-tale upbringing as the adopted daughter of Moroccan King Muhammad V, Malika Oufkir was imprisoned in desert jails for over 20 years after her father's coup against the king's heir failed.
Read by Edita Brychta
October 22, 2001
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The company's latest ad seems to be about the desert, America and where we are willing to go.
By David Thomson
September 8, 2000
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The government now offers insurance for the valuable beasts.
By J.A. Getzlaff
May 15, 2000
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On an innocent walk into the Libyan Desert, our correspondent
discovers just how easily fancied adventures can turn into real ones.
By Rolf Potts
March 28, 2000
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How a windswept, bullet hole-ridden telephone became a legend in its own time.
By J.A. Getzlaff
January 12, 2000
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A woman confronts her painful past on an Outward Bound pilgrimage into the heart of fear.
By Barbara Wilson
November 20, 1999
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Queer erotics has its place in the sun at Burning Man's utopia. How fitting that the sun got too hot.
By Paul Festa
September 16, 1999
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The annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert invents a hyper-real space, a republic of drugs, nudity and spectacle.
By Michelle Goldberg
September 8, 1999
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An impetuous camel safari with two Bedouin guides opens up an enduring ancient world.
By Laura Fraser
June 26, 1999
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Acupuncture. My muscles relax. My eyes close.
There is no real pain, just the apprehension of pain.
By Lisa Moskowitz.
October 14, 1998
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A solitary night in the Sinai turns into an eerie and magical encounter. By Tehila Lieberman. Excerpted from 'Travelers Tales: Women in the Wild.'
By Tehila Lieberman
October 1, 1998
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Tracy Johnston discovers the still unspoiled oasis of Siwa in the Egyptian desert.
By Tracy Johnston
January 27, 1998
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Megan Harlan reviews "Desert Places" by Robyn Davidson.
By Megan Harlan
November 19, 1996
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