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Shared between Chile and Argentina, southern Patagonia is chiefly a land of vast, desolate steppes, though the Chilean section also has areas of conifer and beech forest.
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But there is still a desolate no-man's land in the centre which has hardly changed since we visited last year, except for a clock tower with even less of a face.
BBC: Homs: War changes the soul of Syrian city
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To test their new weapon, the scientists chose a desolate stretch of uninhabited, government-owned land in the New Mexico desert.
NPR: Revisiting the Birth of the Bomb
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Seated in Kahn's Assembly Building in Dacca, Bangladesh, a professor of architecture, Shamsul Wares, tells Nathaniel that his father "was no ordinary man, " and gives a passionate recital of how the architect's vision conjured great buildings out of desolate, empty land.
WSJ: Seeking the Father, Finding the Architect