Word: livestock
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...guests can peer down into the medieval water-storage chamber, and a rain shower is built into the cave walls. Carefully placed lighting and thoughtful details, like the words "Dear Guest" stitched in Portuguese on the bed linen, warm these ancient stone rooms - and make the fact that livestock used to have the run of the place all but a distant memory...
...residents of New York City, Houston, Los Angeles, Boston, and 70 other major cities will elect a mayor. Maine residents will vote on whether to preserve gay marriage, and Ohioans will vote on whether to allow casinos in its major cities and whether to establish a board to set livestock care standards. And Texans will vote on a whole 11 issues, including whether to allow state militia to hold other civil offices...
...late 1980s, the annual increase had fallen to 2% or less. At the same time, demand for food increased. As consumers in high-growth giants such as China and India became wealthier, they began eating more meat, so grain once used for human consumption got diverted to beef up livestock. Making matters worse, land and resources also got reallocated to produce biofuels. Once voluminous reserves of grain evaporated; this year, they are at the lowest levels since the mid-1970s. By early 2008, panicked buying by importing countries and restrictions slapped on grain exports by some big producers helped drive...
When describing Xinjiang, silk road clichés never grow old. China's westernmost region is a vast territory of deserts and mountains, where peaks of black sand descend toward ancient oasis towns. In many of its cities, men still haggle over livestock in dusty markets and purchase blades from blacksmiths whose families have stayed in the craft for centuries. The faces of its Uighur inhabitants, a Turkic Muslim ethnic group, tell of Xinjiang's history as a crossroads for caravans and civilizations: an astonishing array of gray, hazel and blue eyes, fringed by brown or black or even blond...
...While you may be tempted to show off your Cambridge-style cruising skills, it’s probably not best to drive yourself. In rural areas, livestock tend to wander into the streets; you do not want to be known as “cow killer” for the rest of your trip...