the desert back into step. was selected by way of trial and error which. was one of the first scientists who proved which plants and. slightly to survive here if the cord injuries would not be this is a collision in route one of the bushes wanted to study the sun. it's cool. the rich can grow fifteen to twenty meters deep fifteen yet no one and it's a very convenient plant to use because it grows in the sand and doesn't require watering by the. minute you get in the world and scientists recommend planting cuttings of killing you know much the same way grapes are planted that. we were hesitant at first but it turns out that it grows well after all even on certain people can't help wondering they tell us what's the use of planting sticks but after three months the sticks start to blossom. today residents of the county village of pecans kate will start another around combating the desert all they have is an old tractor with soviet era of quick mint attached to fight the invading sands the new agricultural techniqu

the relay competition route is set a few kilometers away from the desert the chara desert itself is a protected nature reserve and visitors only allowed on foot this is no place to host a competition but the protection of the law and the deterrent provided by the sounds themselves make sure that this one of a kind natural treasure remains in its original state. in the evening visitors are treated to one last one. the sun setting over a quiet lake lights up low clouds and fog on the horizon creating an unforgettable beautiful picture. once the sun has set everyone gathers at a large meadow by the lake it is time for the awards ceremony and singing songs by the fire all just for listening to the music of the night forest by the slumbering siberian desert. russia is going to be so much brighter if you. song from phones to fresh. start on t.v. dot com. do . it.

i come to you from out of the desert. i'm coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is hinged to a story, every drop of rain leaving a dimple in the ground. stories are everywhere out in this landscape. when you walk down into the bottom of the narrow canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many stories that start opening up and lead you from place to place and place and soon you start picking up the patterns of wind, of rain. you pick up the patterns of people who were there before you because, out there, things seem to last forever. if you put a footprint down in certain places, that footprint

little colorado river desert, the painted desert, and we were working on a 500-room pueblo dating back to about 1400 ad. i just remember the wind just hailing down on us for days and you would be working down with trowels inside of a trench and if you stop for too long, the sand would start to fill up your hole again because it was blowing so much and everybody was turned away from the wind. so it looked like some kind of religious thing was going on here, all these people bowed to the ground for days and days tinkering with some unimaginable smallness in front of them while the wind just pushed harder and harder, sand blasting across you, filling up all the rooms that you just emptied out as if the desert is rolling back over itself. because even where trails are left, trails disappear out there. nothing stays for too long, even the footprints that last for 7 years eventually disappear. i found something out there that i'd like to read to you. it was a site, an archeological site on the colorado plateau, that i ran into a number of years ago. and i've gone down to it a couple of times

start his mission is to monitor the work battling the deserts of the cation in this area. is an arid region located in the southeastern part of european russia. my organ that this is my homeland. when we were children playing in the steps the grass was so tall that you could barely see if this could be more premium they say that climate change takes millions of years but all steps of change are right in front of our eyes. it was plowed in the one nine hundred sixty s. . they planted corn. sure but it didn't work out and it ruined the steps of the corn is very hydrophilic it drew out all the water and left small sand junes in its wake is. through out history the cow mix of lived as a nomadic tribe of herders that lived in harmony with nature breeding horses camels and even a special breed of cow make sheep these sheep were perfectly suited to life in the desert they were grazing did no permanent damage to the grass as hitler's army approached the vulgar during world war two counted sheep herds were taken to kazakstan as a result the county kurds had to be restored with a di

there is no other source of water in the village the tiny vegetable plot that reclaimed from the desert is in stark contrast to the surrounding environment the sand can only accommodate weeds in a few flowers which don't even get enough sunlight to bloom. galena konya cova has been the village doctor for many years most of her patients call on her with heart problems and physiological disorders from walking on uneven sand day after day to day galina has to make a special house call the village has a new resident two week old step his mother brought in from the city of our candles to settle down in. life does he cry b.c. coping ok he says yes we born if you were born a big baby does he burst feet ok yes yes after if you didn't put him up right in lay him down on one side stick to the diagnosis alter spicy food stay healthy out come to see you tomorrow bye bye. yes i have been here for six years when i arrived in two thousand and five there was only one lady and a village two thousand and seven story spike in the birth rate it was the year when the diesel power plant been done that we did

here is all the monastic ones - mono, monk, monastic - they lived as hermits alone in the desert. now we live in a community together, so we built a wall all around the land but till now, we live alone ourselves. we work together, pray together, eat together one meal a day in our dining room, but we live alone ourselves. every cell has two rooms, small kitchen, small bathroom, in every cell, for one monk - comfortable sense - but no radio, no tv, no newspaper, no refrigerators, no fans, no heater, nothing; only light and water, enough for our life. a simple life. >> we're here at st. macarius monastery, a coptic orthodox christian monastery, located deep in the desert between cairo and alexandria. as i followed brother mark around the monastery, i had the uncanny feeling of crossing some invisible boundary into another space and time, and indeed, i was crossing into the rarified atmosphere of sacred space and sacred time. brother mark was a pharmacist before he entered the monastery, and he told me that the majority of the 100 monks dwelling here were formerly professional men - d

found be on the arctic circle in the permafrost of russia's north how did this place come to the desert. an airplane pierces the low lying clouds and begins to descend inside its baggage laden cabin passengers of patiently waiting to land exhausted from turbulence everyone on board knows that flying to the village of showing a is always risky the white sea coast is infamous for its volatile weather which can change drastically within minutes if a strong crossed wind picks up will be impossible to set down the airplane will have to turn back home and attempt to return journey in a week's time weather permitting. when the pilot sees the green patchwork of the arctic plains give way to yellow swathes of sand he knows that he has arrived at the world's northernmost doesn't every incoming airplane is an event for the village on wednesdays local residents gather at the airfield some travel by foot others drive customized all terrain vehicles that are the only machines capable traversing both the sams am marshall says. the village of showing a sit on cape can in no small washed by the white se

everything is revealed in the desert. there are no questions out there. there's just ground, solid ground, opened layer after layer after layer. some people come back from, say, the edge of the grand canyon and they say it makes them feel small. i understand that but i think it may be a misconception. it may be that it's not a landscape that makes you feel small, it's a landscape that gets rid of your sense of scale entirely because there have been so many times out there in the deep of winter camping for week after week in the open desert where at night it gets down to 10 below or 15 below zero and there's nothing in your life but the sky and the stars. and you are looking up into the sky and you think, i could just stand and walk into stars. i could become a giant. there are times in the desert when you are not small but you are infinite. you take up everything. there is no boundary between you and it. when i look at the artifacts that the anastazi made, especially the painted black and white, i see that landscape. i see the colorado plateau. this bowl

simple white ignorance, even the desert has gone into hiding. there is no more meaning here than the crested moon holds towards a dying grove of date trees. i am for the arabic, for the transcription of the arabic, zato dates over fire-baked bread. the twin rivers have already called for us a history. our poets have already explained to us the desert. by what right have you come? who have you have seen the rustic crane in the tree, no chimes but for its delicate wide beak, ushers an intemperate reprieve? 33 beads on a string, why pretend to know beyond the presence of click. thank you. please welcome gale sher >> the first one is why did she care? why did she care, she wondered, laying aside the book. a dim light could be seen possibly from a cabin reaching in not for the word, but for the space which a time. fat drops driven violently side ways. the man's mind into which she tossed herself becomes a bird. fly away, bird. fly south where you are needed. letters moved, she could barely make them out. the sky moved, hanging bluntly. a circle swaye

there's now a food desert locator on our website at usda.gov. we are working with the private sector and an number of groceries chains instead of giving money to a community, maybe chris restores will think about a downsized gross restore that operates at little or no profit. it would provide decent food and the basics. there's a tremendous amount of activity in this space that is going on our goal is to eliminate these food deserts in seven years. the city of detroit is heavily engaged in a massive effort to turn a lot of their ground fields into green fields. there is a lot of activity going on in this space. if you take a look at our website, your folks can locate communities and states working in this area. >> if i can just shy man -- within the city of denver, have the elementary schools have their own gardens. it is naturally spreading so that each school by the end of next year, we will have every school in denver and roll that out at the state level as part of their curriculum. >> i was thinking about the science of photosynthesis. hopef

star his mission is to monitor the work battling the desert of the cation in this area. here is an arid region located in the southeastern part of european russia. that my organ that this is my home land. when we were children playing in the steps of the grass was so tall that you could barely see if this could be more proof of me they say that climate change takes millions of years but all steps of change are right in front of our eyes. it was plowed in the one nine hundred sixty s. . they planted corn. but it didn't work out and it ruined the steps of the corn is very hydrophilic it drew out all the water and left small sand genes in its wake is. to out history the cow mix of lived as a new.

"dateline" followed her journey as she flew from the desert city of lights, las vegas, to the desert> we love you. >> is desmona a place that israelis go and visit? >> no. >> guy was the host of israel's local news show at the time and an eyewitness to whitney's visit. >> why was whitney houston going to this tiny desert town in the middle of nowhere? >> it's funny. we were asking the same thing. >> whitney, what's the reason for your visit? >> hello. >> what's the reason for your visit? >> her hosts were the african hebrew israelites, a group of african-americans who in the '60s left chicago, detroit and d.c. to follow this man, carter ben ami, a former bus driver from chicago. >> if i were to ask the people in this community about you, is he the messiah, they would say? >> yes, because to them i am the messiah. >> the african hebrew israelite community in israel prided itself on clean healthy living, even reforming addicts by mixing spirituality with mandatory exercise and a strict vegetarian diet. >> six, seven, eight. >> so was whitney here for religion or rehab? >> back up, back

if you ask what possible application that we have created that may be useful loud in the desert, -- what it have an application to? education, urban planning, disaster relief. needless to say, we are ambitious than we think we can affect the course of things. we hope to in this century. >> i wanted to dig a bit more into that. i would love it if you could maybe help contrast the radical levels of participation and involvement that you see at burning man with the current status of san francisco. for a city that has so many creative and imaginative folks, perhaps there could be more to be done on the civic involvement front here. >> we formed a relationship with mayor newsom a while back. i met him at his office and presented to him -- major artistic genre at black rock. and this is portable monumentality. we told him there are great portable monument works of art all around the bay area. not so much in san francisco, but certainly in oakland. in the east bay. there are some facilities left in the city. being an acute politician, he soon realized what that meant. it was the answer to a pol

. >> all right a local couple trekked 50 miles across the sahara desert they join us in studio i sawhem walk in here their legs are still working. it was all for a good cause we will talk about it when we come back 9:26 a.m.  the word is swapportunity. can i have the definition? swapportunity: the opportunity to swap a higher calorie snack for a yoplait light. can you use it in a sentence? mmm. swapping a 300 calorie donut for this 110 calorie strawberry shortcake is a good swapportunity. that's not a real word. oh haha it's real. [ female announcer ] delicious, creamy, yoplait light. over 30 flavors each around 100 calories. do the swap today. >>> of course eli manning made headlines, for winning the super bowl his brother peyton was all the talk a few days before when doctors cleared him to play in 2012 following three neck operations he has been with the colts his entire 14 year career but if they have to choose to pay him a $28 million bonus or cut him and decide to cut him loose red skins may be interested in him but with his injuries is it too much of a gamble.

simple white ignorance, even the desert has gone into hiding. there is no more meaning here than the crested moon holds towards a dying grove of date trees. i am for the arabic,

because everything in the desert leaves a route that leads you somewhere. everything out there is a story. and that's what i'm following, these stories, looking for ways, looking for grains of sand out of place, looking for stories out in the middle of nowhere. i can open this up for questions if anybody has any questions. . >> i was wondering if they had any sort of metal or did they use hardened rocks of some sort to shape their stones? . >> most of what they did was stone. metallurgy was just starting to move up into northern chijuajua at that time and they were working with copper. that was just ornamental, so there was no metal going on at all other than imported bells. >> and the shells, they went down to cortez -- not lake -- the cortez sea to get, was that mostly hard or brittle? . >> it was hard but not tool hard. the colorado plateau is covered with chert, a glassy rock that is really really good for making tools, making very sharp edges. you find there are pieces of chert all over the place and you can still cut your skin open very quickly with i

about coming on the ruins in the desert.ide of that is at least he had the power to build them. to me, you learn so much about the failures of what i would call analytical models from history. exelon has a vision statement. we have a management model but am i foolish enough to believe that everybody lives to the statement in the model every day? no. >> does john roe? >> no, but he tries pretty hard. i would give myself a high batting average on that. i really worth it because when i give speeches to employees, often start with the mission statement. i will look them in the eye and say i can tell you what every word in a mean. i can tell you why is there. i think you need to start with basics. people need to understand that the box is not all wrapped up in sophisticated whirligigs but is really working on a program that they can understand and can grasp and hopefully when they find -- one day find meaningful. we found exelon 20/20, it excited employees. they had something they could go home and tell their kids. they could say

we are in the desert room.n a room with desert plants. >> this is absolutely beautiful. >> it is not what you would call "hands on." i notice you are wearing gloves. >> and i rarely wear gloves. >> and we are going to work with some cactus today. >> you have to handle with care. this may not be a kids project. >> with supervision. i thought there would be more sand in this mix. >> if there is grittyness, you can see some of the sand in here , if you have good potting soil, this is relatively moist. it is great for this. we have good drainage at the bottom there. we are going to take some of these cacti and plant them. i use newspaper a lot when i plant them. >> you are wearing the gloves when you plant them. >> i am going to wrap this around here. >> that has some big thorns in there. >> we have them placed ready to go. >> make some space there. >> you can see, the root system for the size of the plant isn't deep. here we go. >> this guy a little top heavy. >> we're going to make sure he's anchored. we have an

and that later, their mom and dad walked out into the desert. and mommy got lost. >> reporter: fire investigators will sift through the charred rubble of the home to try to

be a disaster for the world economy and i think it be a disaster for the world you know i opposed desert storm back in one nine hundred ninety one i opposed even going in and clean and said i'm hussein out of kuwait because i said this will only be the first arab american war and i was right i mean if you talk about islamic wars you had the war desert storm you had the war against afghanistan they got the war in iraq the war in libya now they're talking about syria now they're talking about iran. of what benefit has this been to the united states when you see where we were in one thousand nine hundred and where we are today and where china was in one thousand nine hundred and where china is today then going into any of these countries haven't invaded anybody and they're moving upward as brazil and as our india and what do we do one and all these places i don't think we can you can't replicate the middle west in the middle east. thank you thank you. the. world to the. teeth of peace to the looking glass at what will be the homes of the future where the walls might just be smarter than the

. >> there was a concern about the effect of speech on recruiting and desertion. >> yes. there was a concern that the expressions of -- >> was it an excuse they used? >> would have limited volunteerism and created more objections to the draft, such as we saw flame into violence in new york and some upstate cities in connecticut in riots that took place when the draft was first instituted. >> but what was the legal standard? what was the articulated standard? >> the legal standard -- i shouldn't have said let there be no noise and light, whatever that anecdote was. i'm paying the price. the legal standard was the law of war, as lincoln put it. he was the commander in chief in the time of a rebellion. that gave him leave since the ability to suspend the writs ambiguously written, it's in the congressional section, no one knows why it's in the congressional section. it doesn't mention congress. so he had the right to suspend the writ in an absolute emergency. he could have called congress back into session to ratify it earlier, but there was some elections still taking place