Despite a fortune estimated at $3.8bn, Moskovitz is said to bike to work, shun business class flights and, according to Forbes, "pitches his own tent at [Nevada desert counter-culture festival] Burning Man".
The 1990 91 Persian Gulf War saw the SAS operating in Iraq's western desert to counter Scud missile attacks into Israel and Saudi Arabia.
At the time, Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon was world unto itself -- a desert collective, bursting with counter-culture creativity, a haven for the young and the restless, for folk singers, songwriters, artists and hippies, both sitting-in and rocking out.
Given that it's held in a desert, it may seem rather counter intuitive that the Burning Man festival always seems to bring out the best in its attendees.
Amid criticism that the city was a "cultural desert," the new Hong Kong government countered with a plan for a money-making, prestige-building "cultural hub," a catchphrase that has lasted through the project's twists and turns.
Specifically, we suggest that tumor cords, like desert riparian habitats, are governed by counter gradients of abiotic and biotic rigor.
She sat herself upon a revolving stool before a counter that was comparatively deserted, trying to gather strength and courage to charge through an eager multitude that was besieging breast-works of shirting and figured lawn.
I saw the function of the long papilla in desert rodents as an elongation of the counter-current concentrating mechanism of the inner medulla.
Burgoyne would later blame La Corne for deserting him, while La Corne countered that Burgoyne never respected the Indians.
In Israel and Egypt, scientists and farmers are developing new methods of countering desertification and growing crops in desert conditions.
Southwestern desert grasslands have proved to be a prime counter-example, and much of the scientific work of discovering this and defining alternative ecological models has been based on research in the region (Westoby 1980).
