It happened outside a casino, right near the front doors, with a clear view to six or seven different buildings, and miles of open desert sky.

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"I certainly enjoy going to the desert and just seeing the sky from a dark location, " he said.

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The lodge creates a peaceful and fantasy-like atmosphere and the empty desert makes for an unusually clear sky and a quiet, dreamy experience.

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I'm rested and relaxed after two days at this wellness-lite resort in the desert two hours east of San Diego--an effect of the vast saturated-blue sky, the 650, 000 acres of nature preserve all around, that cushy bed in my guest room, and, best of all, the laid-back approach to the mindfulness mission.

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In October 2012, The Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed suit in the Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, California to reopen an environmental review of a 100-turbine North Sky River wind project and a smaller adjacent Jawbone project in the mountains north of the Mojave Desert over threats to California condors.

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Assuming the proverbial desert island with just a few inhabitants, if suddenly a great deal of money were to fall from the sky, no real wealth or economic growth will have been achieved for the arrival of the money that on its own is not wealth.

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