1.   For seven days, they waited in this desolate town for Massoud to see them.

2.   Russian troops kept their distance as a ragged band of Chechens strolled through the center of this desolate Chechen town on Saturday.

3.   Three drag queens are on their way to a national contest in Los Angeles when their car breaks down and strands them in a desolate Midwestern town.

4.   This somewhat desolate southern town that is home to poor and working class Sephardic Jews is an unlikely tourist destination.

5.   Berenson is currently serving a long prison term in a desolate Andean town in southern Peru for her links with the MRTA.