Show Tripping through Tunisia Continued but from front killed the family suffered ihunh leaders gathered shame page The to the side Muslim for the ait and denominations show disdain for all of to together loleme the bomber and support for the Jewish We visited the synagogue went on to a Jewish full of children and then sihool We left the island fern on the on their It was lunch was one hoy with terrible heavy glasses who seemed to hang back from the others Don Russell newspaper publisher from Nebraska his own vision troubles was who as Don talked tention him the Our ful "And or (IRA) he grounds and and beauti- and development to dissemi- knowledge on arid areas nate scientific and assess and and in desertification trends IRA researchers of changes of over slat) institution the impact indicators gineers Lands as leading in specialized desertification combating The scope and monitoring wanting information tion system arid conservation tesearch social manuL’ement studies water and economical and approach local (mainly participatory and slock knowledge desertifica- farming system and biodiversity rangeland partner hey with and and out that smaller The problems words than around to us (in above paragraph) problems hear a lot like the information their sc hinds secondary the Hear) who reminds conserve teach They and Jamil ter him people it heavy in the said his kids get af- he leaves lytic lie the water running sJjuvjng He JRA folks fed ua a wondercouscous meal and we were on our the desert (7 found out 5’ay‘Tftiough couscous can be purchased in health ful food stores he desert was wonderful in 4 wheel vehicles a little The are all paved to break is occasional kind of the only up a view of the lines The rolls along vegetation distance and drift off the roads in the fences the sand traveled desert desert sparse and mountains We and only dunes the power to keep he asked alvi traveled through to lush vegetation Palm through nigged keep is such by horse and carriage a radical transition from miles oasis Progress February uktui of sand trots was ols wore soirv ovu vvhon om viultnp tksutl tin rroht uiothot 1b h y tnl vorv 2005 Paged li"kl h Imv m ot ln' at I! 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