The Dead Sea area has for centuries been buffeted by infernal winds from the Arabian desert, seared by temperatures that often reach 120° and relieved by a scant two inches of rainfall a year. Nature has compensated for its cruelty with a bounty: the Dead Sea holds some 47 billion tons of minerals, which make it one of the world's richest mineral storehouses. At the southern tip of the sea, near the spot where Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt, Israel is using nature's largesse for an economic boom that is revitalizing the town of Sodom.
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