Arriving in Las Vegas after eight or nine hours of near-featureless desert road, the player receives one point, and is given the option of driving back to Tucson.
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In December 1998, a group of 16 western tourists, mostly British, was seized at gunpoint on a remote desert road in southern Yemen and taken hostage by fanatical, machine-gun-wielding militants.
Then, as if to permanently seal her hold on her tortured son, Janet Fischl committed suicide by smashing her VW bus into the only tree on a desert road near her home.
Construction workers toiled for a year and built 12 stories on the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Desert Inn Road before the credit markets choked.
Construction workers toiled for a year and built 12 stories on the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Desert Inn Road before the credit markets choked and Boyd Gaming Corp abruptly put the enterprise on hold.
Back then, the nation was in the grips of another Iran-related oil crisis, and to many, this highway through the Utah desert seemed like the road to energy security.
Mines harvesting potash, a key ingredient for fertilizer, were closing, and Carlsbad seemed on the road to becoming another Chihuahuan desert ghost town.
Today, when he's not in Los Angeles, Mr. Nitze, 41, lives three hours away on an entirely different type of frontier: on the outer edge of civilization north from Palm Springs, off a 1-mile-long dirt road in the remote, rocky high desert of Southern California.
From this traditional ranching land, the road follows the Sierra Nevada Mountains northeast through the baking Mojave Desert to a place where no ranching actually takes place, yet the most famous cowboys of them all have come to strut their stuff.
The performance of those six auto-bots marks a new height in humanless feats: Though Stanford's autonomous Touareg "Stanley" won a 132-mile unmanned sprint across the Mojave Desert in 2005, that event's bots merely had to stay on the road.
There also have been deaths at the Baja 1000 and Dakar Rally, the two most famous off-road races, though multiple-death crashes into the crowd like the one in the Mojave Desert are rare.
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