Word: terras
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Erroll Tyler wants to conduct tours with two Hydra-terra vehicles, which are similar to the duck boats used in Boston and other cities...
...another kind of pleasure. Carey's book begins with a quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Here's a story with another monster who strode into the world. But in a universe where so much is false, why should poetry, or any art, be required to stand on terra firma? All the same, there's no mistaking one fact. My Life as a Fake is the real thing. --By Richard Lacayo
...couple of chocolate truffles. And I have yet to see someone put down a bag of chips after just taking a single one. Actually, I lie. I did that once, when I found out that the chips were not potato at all, but some sinister science experiment called Terra Chips, where multi-colored strips of cardboard are flash-fried, salted and served as “vegetable chips.” But, in general, you get the picture...
...make good on my Harvard education—and marry a Beacon Hill-based heiress—I’ll consider doing just that. In the meantime, though, I’ll be dining off the memory of that sole for quite some time. Well, it beats Terra Chips...
...locals are plundering their heritage, travel to the desolate villages southeast of Xi'an, the city that is home to China's famed terra-cotta warriors. These villagers may be dirt poor, but the earth is rich. In early 2001 whispers began circulating that collectors would pay big money for anything dug up from the tomb of Empress Dou, a mighty dowager who died in 135 B.C. So well known was the burial site that locals assumed grave robbers had relieved the tomb's chambers of any gold or silver centuries ago. But now collectors were willing...