Marines swelter in the desert heat in tents with dirt floors infested by camel spiders the size of a hand.
But it is salt - carried by camel to Timbuktu from the mines in the deep Sahara, then by dug-out canoe to Mopti.
The scanning equipment weighed some 80kg and, for the most part, was being transported to the experiment sites by camel - a fitting mode of transport for such state-of-the-art kit.
Using a fleet of automobiles supported by a camel caravan, he would lead an expedition to the Gobi desert in an attempt to reconstruct the entire natural history of the Central Asian plateau.
The Clinton executive order on gays in the military that President Clinton called an "honorable compromise" is, in fact, the proverbial camel produced by a committee.
Though their bodies remain well covered by billowing abayas, the camel-hump girls are often heavily made-up and have a reputation for tottering around the shopping malls in brightly colored high heels.
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"It (the Battle of the Camel) was all staged by the Muslim Brotherhood, " according to Fouda.
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Finally, the rejected draft was the constitutional incarnation of the old joke about a camel being a horse designed by a committee.
Burberry, famous for its red, black and camel check, itself worried investors by warning of a slowdown last September.
Say you are inspired by the person who bought the monkey and camel and decide to go out to garage sales yourself to replicate her return.
And we're allowing, literally, the camel's nose under the tent by not seriously looking at this and determining where regulation is needed.
For three to five days, the boat is carried by the current and pushed by the winds, stopping perhaps at temples and the camel market at Daraw.
The roads were empty except for a black Mercedes that would whiz by once or twice a day and an equally infrequent Bedouin on a camel.
Visitors will discover the cultures of faraway peoples through numerous events and activities including photo exhibitions posters, a screening of the Mongolian film "L'histoire du chameau qui pleure" (The Camel Who Cried) and a documentary on the Silk Road by Elise Blanchard, lectures, creative workshops, cooking and sporting activities.
Activities play off the environment: dune trekking--somewhere between hiking and barefoot beach walking, with a whiff of snowboarding as you slide downhill--camel rides, archery, and dune bashing in SUVs driven (by staff) at high speed over the hills.
The conversion is rejuvenating China's ancient Silk Road to the west, immortalised by Marco Polo in the 14th century but rarely used since sea routes made the camel trains redundant.
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Reynolds Tobacco Company in a commercial speech case filed by the Federal Trade Commission which challenged their use of the cartoon character, Joe Camel, as an unfair trade practice to target children with the fun-loving character.
Dubai's camel race track is approximately 50km (30 miles) out of the city, surrounded by rolling dunes.
The rover was more of a camel, with a knobby-kneed chassis and a long, many-jointed neck, surmounted by a binocular head.
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