Word: squatness
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...faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true...
...reckons he has taken 20 ships since. He and his crew are from the coastal villages of the Sangir Islands, thousands of kilometers east of Babi near the southern tip of the Philippines. Like Palembang, Sangir is renowned in the piracy world for producing Indonesia's best sailors. The squat 54-year-old captain has been arrested twice, once in Malaysia when he was busted for smuggling bales of Cambodian marijuana, and once in China. Both times he was released after his bosses bribed the authorities, but he suspects his employers arranged both arrests so they could...
...desert here is monotonously flat, rising only for escarpments and ridges a couple of hundred meters high?ribs off the ancient, eroded spines of the MacDonnell and Davenport Ranges. From horizon to horizon there is nothing but red earth, squat, pale-green mulga trees and dense mallee shrubs. And when night falls, the darkness is almost palpable...
...land, just across the Charles from Harvard College’s river houses, wasn’t much to look at—a parking lot with some sparse shrubs, a busy roadway of squat industrial buildings, and beyond, a railway lined with low warehouses and resting trailers...
...more obsessed gamble is taking place across America at the Integrated Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California. The center resides in a squat, red brick building, well baked by the Los Angeles sun, whose modest exterior camouflages the far-out work that's happening within. The group is focused on a multimedia effort to bring virtual people together for lifelike encounters. The project is fusing several state-of-the-art technologies - 3-D facial modeling and animation, video compression, spatially placed sound - to create a full-fledged virtual world...