That even this conservative city in the middle of a geographically and culturally hostile desert has a local food scene got me thinking.

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The desert village in the famous cantina scene is replaced by a teeming city, bustling with robots and aliens that weren't there before.

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In her past work, she has woven in elements from London's punk scene, Greek mythology and the New Mexican desert.

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"I was in Desert Storm and that was a cakewalk compared with" the scene at the elementary school.

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Arias has acknowledged trying to clean the scene of the killing, dumping the gun in the desert and working on an alibi, even attending a memorial service for Alexander before her arrest in July 2008.

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On launch day, the live studio programme went on for about five hours, with studio guests and reporters on the scene at the Jiuquan spaceport on the edge of the Gobi desert.

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The scene is like something from a Biblical epic: 2, 000 sheep are being driven across a desert of black lava.

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