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...The six bedrooms upstairs feel big, calm and airy; there are three more in a nearby cottage....
...A whole season of Australian films with not a sheep or a lost schoolgirl in sight....
...Here, sheep! There's not a lot of diversified farms left across the countryside, but we raise corn, soybeans, wheat, some alfalfa, and then we have livestock. On this farm, we have sheep....
...Bison corrals have steel guardrails, of the kind that line highways, because the animals could simply rip a wooden fence apart with their horns....
...“Society has spoken,” Miller tells me. “Society has said, ‘I want to stick with renewable energy’. You may not agree with everything that society is saying but they’ve spoken in a big way.”...
...And then there had been the long wait for a result, forcing emotional swings over the course of a long, four-day tabulation of results from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada....
...The number of incoming asylum seekers has slowed since May as the scorching desert heat has discouraged travel....
...“Because we have such a big territory, and we have neighbours that are in constant demand, it will take some time....
...In places, though, it is reminiscent of the homespun, hippyish desert communities of Arizona or New Mexico....
...Camels, sheep, frankincense and other goods are shipped across the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, while pilgrims head east to Mecca....
...Sebastián picks me up from my hotel in Puerto Natales, a town only 600km from Cape Horn, at dawn the next morning and takes me to the dock....
...West Point, in the north-west of the Falklands archipelago, is an island of about 10 sq km, tenanted by a couple of British sheep farmers, Allen and Jacqui White, and a thousand sheep....
...He now has more than 113,000 followers as @herdyshepherd1 and recently featured on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs....
...“I don’t see how any society can hope to survive unless there’s at least some degree of alignment between society’s interests and economic incentives.”...
...Every statistic about human beings, Cantú tells himself, is a big number “times one”....
...His father, “a docile man”, hadn’t killed them, but didn’t comprehend his son’s love for the big cats....
...“Those rundown mills,” he comments ruefully, are “much like the shattered visage of a long-dead pharaoh in the desert.”...
...and an aproned worker outside skinned a hanging sheep....
...desert in February....
...Every year, in the Arizona desert town of Tucson, the planet’s natural treasures are set out for the delectation of the world’s most passionate gem-hunters at the annual Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase...
...In the desert city of Tucson, Arizona, local entrepreneurs have gathered in the Pueblo Vida bar for a crash course in failure....
...Below us were huge striated gullies, pyramids, gorges, all so big and multicoloured that distance and size seem to dissolve, and it could all be a model landscape....
...In the southern Negev desert it is building another 30km fence along the last open stretch of its border with Jordan....
...Djibouti is a barren land of mountains and desert, and its location has always been its most precious resource....
...There are seven “bonfire societies” in Lewes, and one of the few coherent marchers told us that a full third of the town’s 16,000 residents were out on the warpath....
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