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That area has been likened by some to a moister and colder version of the arid Great Basin region of the western United States.
The split creates another planet in an alternate dimension, Dark Aether, a mirror version of Aether that is dark, arid, and has a poisonous atmosphere.
City leaders, cheered on by aggressive developers, had hoped to turn Ordos into a Chinese version of Dubai — transforming vast plots of the arid, Mongolian steppe into a thriving metropolis.
The Lone Ranger's own raid is heavily indebted to Leone's version (the same birds clattering from a bush, same arid landscape, with Ennio Morricone's music directly quoted), but it also uses Ford's long-distance look at the burning settlement and, out of nowhere, the exact same shot of the exact same dog they used in The Searchers ("Go back, Chris!").
As the trend in both complexes is for increasing size (Fig. 5 left), this suggested a common, possibly climatic, cause (e.g. James' version of Bergmann's rule, which predicts larger size in more arid areas [ 46]).
However, previous studies did not make further attempts to explain this pattern, which could be explained either by climatic effect (e.g. James' version of Bergmann's rule, which predicts larger body size in more arid areas [ 46]), and/or by interspecific competition (i.e. character displacement in the Maghreb where crested larks live sympatrically with the Thekla lark).
Watercress isn't common at farmers markets because it isn't easy to grow in arid Southern California, but Kanji Yasutomi of Pico Rivera manages to offer upland cress, a slightly spicier version, by raising it hydroponically.
Even the Zen-Puritan Long understood that his gnomic trails — map coördinates, numeric and textual itineraries — were too arid to hold the viewer's interest, and he took to bringing into the gallery shorthand versions of his original experience.
Using daily streamflow data (1962 1992), a modified version of the analysis was used to estimate the subsurface hydraulic parameters of four semi-arid, mountainous watersheds (204 764 km2) near Oaxaca, Mexico.
