Thirty-five miles southeast of Las Vegas is a 280-acre shining oasis on a parched desert plain: the power plant called Nevada Solar One.

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If you want to dig beneath the hard-scrabble surface of this desert oasis, start with the OriGen Experience.

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Palestinian and Austrian companies are investing heavily in Oasis, a sprawling tourist complex below sea-level in the desert.

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For income-focused investors, Real Estate Investment Trusts have been an oasis in the desert lately.

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Cheers broke out in the mission control in Geneva shortly after the Anglo-Swiss team touched down at 0603 GMT near the Dhakla Oasis in the western Egyptian desert, more than 200 miles west of Luxor.

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