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The United Arab Emirates often highlights its modernity and progress to the outside world, choosing to forget that just a few generations ago, the country was inhabited by Bedouin tribes living in the desert.
BBC: Al Ain: The desert��s oasis
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Some 110, 000 of those who have sought shelter in Jordan are living in the desert camp of Zaatari, near its northern border with Syria.
BBC: Syria conflict: Refugees number a million, says UN
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The modern world has not been kind to the tribes scraping a living from the barren fringes of the desert.
BBC: The Islamists hijacking a rebellion in Timbuktu
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The touchstone of the Springs Preserve is the forward-thinking Desert Living Center.
BBC: Discover life in the Nevada desert
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Aside from the sweltering daytime heat and the freezing night-time temperatures, the biggest problem for folks living in desert regions is finding sources of water.
ENGADGET
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For the Tuareg and Wodaabe nomads of the Sahara desert it is a fleeting chance to enjoy the pleasures of communal living before leaving with their herds.
ECONOMIST: The nomads defy a government ban
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As the young man (played by Emile Hirsch) travels about, he attracts the interest of a South Dakota wheat farmer (Vince Vaughn, playing it straight), an aging hippie (Catherine Keener), and a retired Army man living on the edge of the California desert (Hal Holbrook), all of whom ask him to put down his backpack and stay.
NEWYORKER: Into the Wild
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We were living in the area between Tibet and the Gobi Desert, and being desert dwellers we were always loners.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Interview: Foreign Minister Win Aung - Page 1
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The off-strip locations like the Luxor and the Holiday Inn Desert Club were comparatively nice places, with the latter offering a two-bedroom suite with full living room and kitchen for a fraction of the price of other hotels.
FORBES: Here's How Much I'm Saving by Skipping CES this Year
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This is an attempt to understand the lives of ordinary people living in taiga or highlands, in a desert or tundra.
UNESCO: OFFICE IN MOSCOW
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So now, it's like I have to - my life is like Planters and fruit now, and living right do it, like - it's a big thing being in the desert, too.
NPR: Child Hunger: Nutritious Food Tough To Afford