Word: farmland
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...Whatever progress Beijing may make assumes, of course, that it can complete $20 billion in stadiums on what is now farmland, a $12 billion water-treatment system that is still a blueprint and an air-cleanup program to purify an atmosphere so filled with soot that the skies periodically rain mud. Beijing has no history of building such facilities effectively. Its most high-profile construction project of the past decade, Oriental Plaza in the city center, was so rife with corruption that an investigation brought down Beijing's party chief and nearly the whole city leadership. The I.O.C...
...pretty good deal for President Bush. It was an extraordinarily difficult task for the Clinton Administration to get other nations to agree to a system that both allowed trading to reduce costs and gave credit for establishing carbon "sinks" by protecting growing forested areas or planting trees on degraded farmland. Clinton and Gore negotiating the flexible, market-oriented Kyoto accord was a bit like Nixon going to China. A conservative like Bush could never have achieved such flexibility without vituperative criticism from activists and Democrats...
...Five feet of snow covers the low rolling hills, and the only clues that the area is farmland are the combines and grain elevators strategically placed along the side of the road. The hills roll on and on, blending with the dark storm clouds in a ever-deepening gray gradient in which the horizon never comes. The map tells me to take the road leading directly into the darkest, grayest, coldest-looking section of the entire horizon, and I pause for a moment at the junction heading north. But I am encouraged by my scrappy little orange Sunfire...
...pioneers like Quyen, Vietnam's vast central highlands are a land of opportunity. Facing a desperate shortage of farmland, nearly 1 million ethnic Vietnamese, or Kinh, have headed for the hills in the past decade, spurred on by a government that saw the area, populated primarily by minority hill tribes, as a safety valve for impoverished and landless lowlanders. Nestled next to the Cambodian border, the remote, rugged hills are Vietnam's version of America's Wild West. Along Highway 14 signs of the frontier are everywhere: clapboard houses hastily built, tin-roofed general stores offering basic goods and people...
PRODUCT Former farmland converted into labyrinths...