A worker plants garlic between orange plants at the Desert Development Center in the Nile Delta, September 20, 2007. It looks like a mirage but the lush fields of cauliflower, apricot trees and melon growing among a vast stretch of sand north of Cairo's pyramids is all too real -- proof of Egypt's determination to turn its deserts green. Picture taken September 20, 2007. To match feature DESERT-EGYPT/
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