But now, federal authorities say they suspect that the men were buried in the same vacant lot on a marshy, desolate strip of the Brooklyn-Queens border.

City and state officials said yesterday that they had agreed on a plan to transform a desolate strip of waterfront land in Harlem into a recreational area.

And Wednesday they anchored off a desolate strip of Padre Island.

A highlight of the week was meeting Inupiat elders who had survived 60, 70 and 80 winters on this desolate strip of land.

"We're trying to raise the visual quality so it looks more like the Americana shopping center than it does a desolate, low-income strip," he said.

Yet academic success has done little to attract new families to this windswept, somewhat desolate strip of sand three miles off Connecticut.

The airport, a desolate sun-baked strip of tarmac, is in the hands of the Government.

Yet on a recent afternoon, only one person was on the desolate, unmarked public strip, which is surrounded by chain-link fencing.

By 1934, a reservation is established in southwestern Colorado for Southern Utes, an arid, desolate strip of land 15 by 100 or 110 miles.

It's just a desolate strip of land, but with a pleasant beach.