Word: parkes
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...from downtown Hanoi, shimmering emerald paddy fields are now bisected by a four-lane highway. Not far from where rice farmer Nguyen Thi Lan stands weeding her fields in calf-deep muck, a Singapore-Vietnamese joint venture will soon build a 1,700-acre (700 hectare) industrial park and township, turning this rural area into a satellite city. Trang Hieu Dung, director of planning at Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, says that the country is losing about 99,000 acres (40,000 hectares) of rice paddies every year to construction of cities, highways and industrial zones...
...Crimson needs to beat UMass tonight in the first round of the Beanpot. I know I just said non-conference games don’t matter, but the Beanpot is no ordinary non-conference event, and the confidence that getting a chance to play under the lights of Fenway Park in the championship game next week would give Harvard would be invaluable...
...under the illusion that the show has the rigor of academic work or the exactitude of journalism,” he said. “A lot of these stories were told to us in bars by school principals or with drug dealers and former drug dealers on park benches.”Canada focused on how kids in cities willingly turn to the drug trade at an early age, when no jobs and no other opportunities exist. “When we played cops and robbers, nobody wanted to be the police. Everyone wanted to be a robber...
...training and you really appreciate all the hard work you’ve done all season. Everyone looks forward to the spring season and it’s definitely the best time of the year.” The team took to the warmer waters at Crown Point Shores Park at Mission Bay in San Diego against stiff competition—the field included defending national champion Washington as well as runner-up Stanford. While the varsity eight placed third in its division, the second varsity eight defeated Washington and Cal’s second boats to capture the Sharp...
...night recently police came upon Williams in the park with several huge bottles of beer. "They just told me to go home," he told friends later. His buddies heard him Saturday night, when he got drunk at a bonfire, talk about taking a gun to school and shooting the place up. "I'll show you one day," he said. When it was over, when the police came to take him away, wrapping him in that oversize white jumpsuit, no one heard him say anything about being sorry. And no one heard him ask for anyone, not even...