In a nearly empty cantina in a dark desert town, the short, drunk man makes his pitch.

隐秘沙漠小镇里的一间冷清的酒吧里，一个矮小的、醉熏熏的男人自饮自乐。

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Sleeping on a moving train can be tricky, but in a quiet siding outside a desert town it isn't.

在行驶的列车上睡觉可能不太容易，但是停在安静的沙漠小镇外的支线上，事情就不一样了。

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A handful of tiny babies with feeble limbs populated a ward in anintensive nutrition clinic in the desert town of Tanout.

在沙漠小镇塔努特拥挤的营养诊所，一些四肢虚弱的小婴儿住在一个病房。

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In the heart of the Navajo Nation, in the middle of the high desert many kilometers from any town, one finds the only point in America where four states come together.

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Abshir Ahmed,52, has lived all his life along a stretch of the desert near the town of Docol, Scratching the bone-dry earth with his bare,calloused feet, Ahmed says the devastation that he and others are experiencing now is worse than anything they have ever been through before.

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Three of the 29 militants who overran the facility near the desert town of In Amenas were taken alive.

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Mayor Sadou Diallo misses residents of his desert town of Gao, most of whom fled to Bamako when militants took over.

CNN: Broken limbs, torn lives in northern Mali

Hemet is a dusty desert town, two hours east of Los Angeles.

NPR: California Town Hit Hard by War Losses