This is an attempt to understand the lives of ordinary people living in taiga or highlands, in a desert or tundra.
Beijing's Tsinghua University and the local government are developing the site, located in a desert area in north-western China, Xinhua says.
So saving water in Atlanta may be more cost effective, but its environmental impact is arguably less meaningful than saving water in a desert.
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He provided live coverage of the first operation performed during the war, and performed life-saving brain surgery five times himself in a desert operating room.
For example, if a person was last seen in a desert, it stands to reason that no one would guess that they would be found in a body of water, he points out.
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Sitting on his bass boat on the lagoon portion of Castaic Lake, a reservoir in a desert some 45 minutes north of L.A., Crupi bakes under a merciless southern California sun from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Syria's air and naval forces conducted live-fire manoeuvres aimed testing their readiness to repulse "any aggression against the homeland, " the official Sana news agency reported, with state TV pictures reportedly showing warplanes and helicopters firing missiles at targets in a desert area, as well as surface-to-air missiles hitting targets in the air.
Atlantis was caught in a rare desert downpour after landing at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert on February 20.
With its extensive collection of African and Asian art, the Majestic building is an oasis in a cultural desert.
We bootstrapped the business, but key successes (each seemed like an oasis in a cashless desert) breathed new life and cash flow into the business.
Open a full-service supermarket in a food desert and shoppers tend to buy the same artery-clogging junk food as before they just pay less for it.
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At the Sabah Al-Ahmad nature reserve, environmental remediation has involved planting trees and building ponds to bring back wildlife, resulting in a flourishing desert ecosystem.
At a weapons dump in the Rajasthan desert in India, a gardener was sacked to save money.
It's not a sexy image, unless you've spent a month in the desert alone with a herd of camels, but it's still considered too explosive for Kuwaitis to handle.
Convinced of its staying power, the company just opened a design studio in Orange County, Calif. and is building a factory in Alabama and a test track in the Mojave Desert.
For a Travel Channel show on the natural wonders of Jordan that he hosted, he flew his own helicopter, rode a camel in the desert and forged up a river to see a beautiful canyon.
In 2004, Mr. Appleton crashed a stunt plane in the Idaho desert after he performed a loop for a corporate video.
"The thing that really struck the science team about this image is that you would really be forgiven for thinking that NASA was trying to pull a fast one on you and we actually put a rover out in the Mojave Desert and took a picture -- a little L.A. smog coming in there, " he said.
Qasr Al Sarab is in the Liwa Desert, in a region evocatively called the Empty Quarter, and the name is not an instance of poetic license.
Much of the alleged abuse took place at the Gold Base, a Scientology outpost in the desert near Hemet, a town eighty miles southeast of Los Angeles.
This software mastered the tricks of collision-avoidance in a series of desert test runs conducted before the race started.
As he speaks, stunning images of the Golden Gate bridge and Santa Monica's palm trees clash with a cow crossing a freeway in a drab Nevada desert.
In Connecticut Dr. Charles Jones, a pediatrician, is under investigation by the state medical board for prescribing, over the phone, antibiotics for chronic Lyme to two children in Nevada, a desert state with few ticks.
For his new book Gun Guys: A Road Trip, Mr Baum travelled across the US and met a variety of gun owners, from those blasting automatic weapons in the desert to a school teacher hunting pigs.
The hostages were freed, and six of the dozen or so pirates believed to have been involved are in French custody after a raid in the Somali desert.
In one generation, Dubai has graduated from a village that people just fly over, to an instant city in the desert, to a destination for migrant workers and expatriates, to a world financial center and demographic microcosm of the planet.
The joint operation followed a meeting between then-Prime Minister Tony Blair and Gadhafi in the Libyan desert in 2004, in which a deal was struck on intelligence cooperation, according to Leigh Day and legal action charity Reprieve.
Seven-year-old Santosh hadn't been in her new job a week yet in Dabbi, in the western desert state of Rajasthan, when a reporter visited.
The town sits smack in the middle of a USDA food desert stretching miles in every direction.
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