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...affected one another. (The Central American series, for instance, connects the rugged desert landscape and the sometimes brutal native cultures: the hardy cacti provided sustenance--and a handy place to impale human sacrifices.) Part history, part anthropology, part biology, all breathtaking spectacle, the set gives new meaning to the phrase living color...
USDA ANNUAL REPORT, replacing hunger with this phrase to describe the experience of 4.4 million Americans; a USDA sociologist said hunger is not a scientifically quantifiable term...
...tape that has caused a scandal in conservative Tehran. Ebrahimi claims the tape was fabricated by her ex-fiancé, who faces up to three years in jail if convicted of making and distributing it "Very low food security" U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ANNUAL REPORT, replacing hunger with this phrase to describe the experience of 4.4 million Americans; a sociologist for the department said hunger is not a scientifically quantifiable term
...sunken courtroom, a ribbon of glass at street level ensures that justice is always visible to those it should protect. And dividing this potent symbol of equality from the relics of apartheid are the Great African Steps, built with 150,000 bricks from the demolished cellblock. Rarely does the phrase "out of darkness comes light" have so much resonance. constitutionhill.org.za
...attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors some days. (At one stand, The Hindu newspaper noted with amazement, punters can buy not only a pair of bargain-priced Chinese jeans, but also the Chinese machinery that makes them.) Indian newspapers are talking up the idea of an emerging "Chindia" - a phrase coined by Indian economist Jairam Ramesh - that acts as a counterbalance to traditional powers Europe and the U.S. And while the government still focuses on their differences - theirs is a democracy, Indian officials note, where laws are debated and voted on rather than pushed through by an all-powerful...