Word: paddocks
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...starting point for any trip is the capital, Ulan Bator, reached by Mongolian Airlines (MIAT) or Air China from Beijing. From the air, Mongolia looks like one huge paddock. Smoothed grasslands that cover an area three times the size of France are punctuated by an occasional group of gers, the circular tents of grubby white felt that many Mongols call home. You'll need a four-wheel drive once out of town. Most people take pre-arranged tours but Karakoram Expeditions can fix transport, guides and horses for independent travelers. Call...
...beauty standing firm against the encroaching suburbs. Only a pair of football-field-size enclosures surrounded by 9-ft.-high sheet-metal walls and monitored from a watchtower give the hint that this is something more than just an unusually idyllic office park. The huge pens suggest a dinosaur paddock from Jurassic Park--an image reinforced when whatever is inside inexplicably starts slamming violently against the metal walls...
...winged wonder" has done everything right on the oval, but hasn't looked quite content doing it. Both before and after the Wood, Fusaichi Pegasus misbehaved, balking before entering the starting gate and then bucking and snorting his way back to the paddock after crossing the wire. Last week, he looked disagreeable by refusing to run an early-morning workout at Churchill, then bucking and throwing his exercise rider before laying down on his rump in the middle of the track a few days later...
Springfest is the most visible event put on by the undergraduate council every year, and has the potential to be to bring students together in the warm spring air. But fried dough, carnival games and a fenced-in paddock for beer drinkers are not enough to create a quality event. The council needs a popular and well-respected band that will bring students out of their rooms and away from their textbooks. Yet at the same time they are constrained by the limited funds available. The council's record of finding bands has improved in the past few years--from...
...rebuked. To each story was ascribed a moral: never correct a wrong ticket, always pay attention to the names and always box the runners in an exacta. Everybody seemed full of oral histories, from the Rockaway Beach set in their sharkshin suits to the Rastafarians who ringed the downstairs paddock and called out insults and encouragement to the jockeys before every race...