January 2007
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MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS
A dry subject, you might think, and literally you would be right. While the Inuit people have hundreds of words for snow, the North Africans have one word for all that sand - Sahara, which means desert in Arabic. The Sahara is the world’s largest hot desert and second largest desert after Antarctica. It is 2.5 million years old and covers an area in North Africa almost as large as the United...