Word: buttes
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...army has been working more successfully with residents in recent years to lessen its impact on the surroundings. At Mpala Ranch, where the army does some training, officials have agreed to move their exercises to an area that doesn't butt up against landowners who run tourism ventures. The Mpala Research Center, an independent scientific-research station in Laikipia, has begun a study to measure the effects of the training on wildlife. (The army contends that there have been no serious disturbances to the animals since it boosted its training program.) And by 2011, the army says, it will...
...City's nasty mayor Stone (Donald Sutherland) insists on activating a kind of death ray, Toby wanders into the lab and is killed. His grieving father creates a robot version of Toby - same DNA, but with cool extras like propellant flames in his shoes and machine guns in his butt. Rejected by his father, Toby escapes Metro City and lands on the grungy surface of earth, where children are enslaved by the cheerfully malicious Ham Egg (Nathan Lane), and an underclass of humans and robots are forced into gladiatorial slam downs. Can Toby survive this environment, save his new friends...
...been a hallmark of Tehran's diplomacy, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy routinely plays the tough cop with Iran, threatening and goading its leaders and urging U.S. President Barack Obama to take a tougher line. On Tuesday, Iran struck back with a humiliating slap-down, insisting that France butt out of the deal because Tehran could not trust the nation to honor its commitments. Iranian diplomats even delayed the start of the day's talks in Vienna on the agreement, insisting that it was unnecessary for the French to be in the room. Eventually the talks went ahead with French...
...opinion shifted after New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg banned smoking in bars. At the time, I believed having a scotch in one hand and a butt in the other wasn't just essential to the pursuit of happiness but a necessary means for Jersey women to let people know that they weren't going home alone. I was outraged by Bloomberg's hubris. Was he also going to outlaw short skirts, hair spray and singing along to "Livin' on a Prayer"? (See what dictators do after they are deposed...
...just about as large as the U.S. and with a population of 190 million - Portuguese-speaking Brazil has always longed to project itself beyond the confines of Latin America. But, aside from soccer and Carnaval, the world has rarely taken Brazil as seriously. In fact, Brazil was long the butt of a joke that said it was the country of the future - and always would be. It was the only New World country to have a monarchy, which it abolished in 1889. That regal tradition spawned a quasi-feudal class system that made Brazil a stained paradise in the 20th...