It is a discovery of high concern say scientists because it demonstrates just how dry the Middle East can become during Earth's warm phases.

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It's been like you're going skiing, it's just so dry.

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Sharp has just wrapped a rather dry press conference at IFA, where it announced very little, but did rattle off a series of fairly benign and boring numbers (which we will spare you from).

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CSFB, thinks that discretionary spending on fine jewellery and other luxuries will be the first to dry up and take the longest to recover, just as it did after the Gulf war.

ECONOMIST: American retailers

He presented it not as a dry policy plan, with just numbers and actuarial tables, but as a manifesto that drew on the canon of Western political philosophy as interpreted by conservative intellectuals.

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But eventually, each atom encounters a plate at a temperature lower than its boiling point, at which point it sticks to the plate, just as water freezes when poured on to dry-ice.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear waste

There is no sign to mark it, just a sprawl of heavy, dark, tropical hardwood left to dry and age in the sun and a couple of half-finished canoes in front of the open-air shed where he does his work.

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Well Tanya is now back on dry land in Austin, Texas, and she joins me now live from there where it's just gone three in the morning.

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