Word: ironwood
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...were among 85 killed when what started as a peaceful protest outside the local police station went horribly wrong. Now, three days later, as rifle-toting soldiers stood watch, the shrouded bodies were first laid out under the hot sun on a field next to the 380-year-old ironwood Wadi al-Hussein mosque. Prayers were said. Then, amid the pervasive stink of decay, the bodies were buried in a deep hole. As he watched the diggers fill in the mass grave, Amdan shook his head. "I just can't believe it," he said. Then he threw...
...began to focus again on the environment. Making up for lost time, he has created or expanded 13 national monuments, giving new protection to more than 4 million acres of land, from the sequoias in California to salmon- spawning grounds in Washington to archaeological sites in Colorado and ancient ironwood trees in Arizona. And he is proposing to set aside 58 million acres of forest as sanctuaries that will be off limits to road builders...