1.   It is a desolate area near the border with Somalia where banditry, gun-running and smuggling are common.

2.   Or, as Seda told Detective Pia, did he choose his victims simply because they seemed vulnerable and happened to wander into a desolate area?

3.   Summers, he said, then ordered Falcone to drive his vehicle from the Nanuet Mall to a desolate area off Hungry Hollow Road in nearby Chestnut Ridge.

4.   The answer, they learned, was in a desolate industrial area in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

5.   This was all happening in a back area of the FleetCenter, a desolate back area.

6.   Typically, we tend to think of danger lurking in more desolate areas.

7.   The Customs computer is used for lookouts at guarded border crossings, but Resendiz usually crossed in desolate areas, the report said.

8.   His fleet sailed out of Lyttelton, near Christchurch, to McMurdo Sound to establish an airstrip in the desolate area.

9.   US Forest Service spokesman Larry Warren said rescue teams on horseback and on foot began arriving at the desolate area early Sunday morning.

10.   Warren said rescue teams on horseback and on foot began arriving at the desolate area early Sunday morning.