Lawrence decided to attack from the east instead, coming at the city from the unprotected desert, and to do that he led his men on an audacious, six-hundred-mile loop up from the Hejaz, north into the Syrian desert, and then back down toward Aqaba.

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It's a hard life, but prosperous, at least in the years when there isn't a drought--then the dry savannah turns to desert and there is nothing to do but hold on and try to survive with enough cattle and game to start over.

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He told the chamber 54, 000 young people were in the S2 cohort vanguard for the Curriculum for Excellence and to "let them down and desert their aspirations would be the wrong thing to do".

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The consensus view is that the Bank of England is likely to remain stranded on its desert island surrounded by waves of inflation but unable to muster the strength to do anything about it.

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Pusateri and the Soffers are among several casino bosses waiting for Wynn to unveil his plans--which he's expected to do in October around the time the old Desert Inn is demolished.

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"This is a country the size of England -- a big part of it is volcanic desert, glaciers, rivers, lakes -- so if we decide to do it we can control the traffic in such a way that we allow people to enjoy the beauty of the country without being overcrowded, " he says.

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Looking ahead, if the U.S. will be required to conduct a theater campaign along the lines of Desert Storm, OIF, or OEF, it will likely do so under more challenging circumstances than envisioned when the standard was first articulated.

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