51.   Unlike in more conservative Muslim societies, Tuareg women wear brilliantly striped gowns of sequin that glow in the bright desert sand.

52.   With no clear demarcation in the desert sands, it was hard to tell.

53.   But a local surveyor cried foul when he was asked to plot circles in the desert sand, charging that Albuquerque intended to draw a Star of David.

54.   Their coats -- mostly bay and brown -- were shiny, their manes wild and long, and their bushy, untrimmed tails swept the desert sand.

55.   The desert sands were soaked with liquor after the Gulf emirate of Sharjah destroyed thousands of bottles of alcohol in a crackdown, police said Tuesday.