"Maybe there are 30 of them left, " said Mamadou Coulibaliy, who was bringing his cousin and her baby daughter - fast asleep and covered in dust - out on his motorbike.

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Unfortunately for lovers of dust and beautifully over-engineered gear, the room-sized recording console is dying out fast, replaced by software and small, neat, racks of pre-amps and analog summing mixers.

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If Mr Clinton fails to win fast-track before his presidency ends in January 2001, the talks may slide into the dust.

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