Word: sanded
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...raising the specter of the craft's returning to the parks. But in general, the Interior Department has been much more inclined to allow the use of public lands by corporations and sportsmen. The Administration plans to allow off-road vehicles back on 50,000 acres of the Imperial Sand Dunes, near San Diego. And later this month the Administration is likely to issue a rule clearing legal hurdles for coal mining companies, especially in Appalachia, to dump waste into streams after literally ripping the tops off of mountains...
...This poor man's Thailand boasts four dazzling but desolate white-sand beaches, each sparsely dotted with shanties where locals sell water, fruit and French fries. Victory Beach is a two-minute walk from a backpacker-hotel cluster known as Weather Station Hill, where $2 rooms abound. The adventurous can hike 3 km south to Independence Beach. Sokha and Ochheuteal beaches on the south shore offer bungalows for rent and are somewhat more commercial, but not by much...
...pretty good deal for $100,” said Joseph P. Chase ’02, who worked at the Sand Art booth...
...moguls would give a black actor (any actor) final cut, and that Stalinism was not slavery but liberation. Through three decades of Soviet tyranny (including the murder of one of his Russian-Jewish friends), he remained faithful to the U.S.S.R. And here his charm failed him. He could sell sand to Saharans, but he couldn't peddle Stalin to America. Widely popular in the early 40s, he was a pariah by 1950, denied a passport until 1958, spurned by mainstream black groups, forgotten in the civil rights struggle he had championed...
...embargo on Cuba. DeLay aides say their boss worried that the White House was getting too much pressure from Israel's enemies in the Arab world, many of whom were demanding that Sharon lift his military siege of the occupied territories. "DeLay wanted to draw a line in the sand" and stake out the position of Republican conservatives in the crisis, said one of his staffers. "The White House needed to hear from the pro-Israel side...