Word: eucalyptuses
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...University of California at San Diego doesn't just help a local school. It owns one. The Preuss School, on the university's eucalyptus-scented campus, is the nation's first charter school created by a university and dedicated to serving poor, minority students...
...LEANNE Koalas kidnapped by teens return to San Francisco Zoo and go on eucalyptus binge...
...fierce orange glow of the night sky, all roads out of the city closed where they crossed the blazing forests, houses claimed by flames racing down the fingers of vegetation that probe the city's suburbs. To the west, the national parkland of the Blue Mountains, named for the eucalyptus oils that evaporate from the gum trees and tint the air, is a 10,000-sq.-km wilderness of heavily wooded gullies and forbidding cliffs, home to well over a thousand species of plants. Only six years ago the Wollemi pine was added to the list. These prehistoric trees, previously...
...districts in Kibungo prefecture, Rwanda. She had a round, happy face, full cheeks, short, curly hair and good, straight teeth. She wore silver bangles, which jingled as she and Joseph walked together around the road that marked the perimeter of the camp, talking about home, about the avocado and eucalyptus trees, the rolling, verdant hills and the cooler air of Kibungo. Nereciana had sharp, slightly downcast, eager, probing eyes. When she spoke, Joseph detected a confidence in her tone; she knew what she was saying when she told of her desire to have a family. And when she talked about...
...that remains of the mud-and-concrete church building that nestled on the side of a pretty, eucalyptus-studded hill near the town of Kanungu, in southwestern Uganda, is a few sheets of corrugated tin that twist and snap in the wind. More than a week after leaders of an obscure indigenous Christian cult led, or perhaps forced, their followers into the building, poured gasoline around and then set, or had their followers set, fire to the place, the site has become a macabre graveyard. Police bulldozed the building and its grisly contents--at least 330, and perhaps as many...