In the centre of Tafraoute, sheep make their way up a dry stream bed.

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He had slipped the pack off and lowered it gently down between two boulders by the stream bed.

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There was no trail that the young man could see, but they were working up and around the face of the mountain and now they crossed a small stream and the old man went steadily on ahead up the edge of the rocky stream bed.

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He sat now by the stream watching the clear water flowing between the rocks and, across the stream, he noticed there was a thick bed of watercress.

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Comedy offers a dual advantage that genres like reality and drama do not: a cheaper price tag and the ability to repeat in syndication. (The genre's stand-alone 30-minute episodes--22 minutes without commercials--seem almost tailor-made for the otherwise distracting pre-dinner or pre-bed syndication blocks.) Though the latter is hardly the lucrative revenue stream it once was due to increased entertainment options, ailing advertisers and narrower fare, it can still deliver many millions--in some cases billions.

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And colleges stream live video of lectures, so students don't even have to leave their bed to take notes.

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