To anyone looking south from Indonesia, Australia looks above all like a big red desert.

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David (David Wissak), who is some sort of location scout, and Katia (Katia Golubeva), a French-speaking Russian girl with no apparent occupation or interests, drive in a red Hummer through the sinister high desert of California.

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It takes its name from the huge, red rock that stands aloof in the desert, towering above a narrow ridge that points towards it like an arrow.

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The purpose, he says, is to evoke joy through spectacular beauty, a feat he intends to achieve by painting the 410, 000 barrels, producing a three-dimensional mosaic of red and blue and yellow in the desert 100 miles outside Abu Dhabi City.

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They have countless white and red varietals to choose from, plus sparkling wines and even desert wines.

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In addition to the three goals given up in their regular-season opener, the Red Bulls conceded nine goals in four games at last month's Desert Diamond Cup preseason tournament.

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De Soto's team, along with the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, found that to acquire and legally register a lot on state-owned desert land in Egypt requires dealing with 31 public and private agencies and red tape that can stretch from 5 to 14 years.

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