Like the artist Chip Lord's half-buried Cadillacs in the Texan desert, the fishing boats of Kazakhstan rise from the salty plain that once was the bed of the Aral Sea. But this is no art installation. It's not a seaside attraction extolling the freedom and mobility of ships. It's a folly, the legacy of the Soviet Union's plan to divert rivers to grow cotton. Those diverted rivers no longer fed the Aral Sea. A dam was built on the Aral Sea and the life there got much better. The locals have also some income from fishing.

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词语解释：

1. desert n. 沙漠
2. plain n. 平原
3. attraction n. 吸引力