Word: verdant
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...power of the allies, Saddam employed maneuvers that suggest he has learned lessons from the first Gulf War. His military has abandoned the wide open deserts that made its tanks easy targets for U.S. attacks in 1991. Instead the Iraqis have burrowed into the cities and the verdant Euphrates river valley, where U.S. forces have more difficulty spotting them...
...Oslo only like it because of the parts that make them feel like they're not in the city" - so green space takes up acres of Oslo's land. Across the road from the Munch Museum are the University of Oslo's botanical gardens. A stroll along its verdant paths and past the university's museums will bring you to Rodeløkka, a slice of small-town Norway plunked into the heart of the city. The neighborhood's narrow, hilly streets are lined with some of Oslo's best samples of Norwegian village architecture - clapboard cottages in brick reds...
Fine outdoor dining in the crisp Cambridge night air on a verdant and well-decorated terrace above Tommy’s Value on Mt. Auburn Street is in the works, with Daedalus’ plans for a new rooftop dining area...
...produces or what the trade is worth. But around Mazar it's almost impossible to find a field where hemp is not being grown, either openly or poorly hidden behind watermelons or knee-high cotton plants. "Everybody's farming chaars now," says former Taliban fighter Faizullah, 27, watering a verdant six-hectare oasis of hemp surrounded by desert. Cannabis used to be outlawed by the Taliban. "But now," says Faizullah, "it's a free...
...Olde Shanghai that houses the city's poshest restaurants and bars in gutted old buildings. But Xintiandi feels like a sleight-of-hand: an insta-version of Shanghai that betrays little of the city's real history. Avoid it. Instead experience real colonial splendor at Face, located on the verdant grounds of the Ruijin Guesthouse. Face combines two restaurants and a sumptuous bar in an ornate mansion built in 1936. The two eateries offer northern Thai and Indian food, the latter in a romantic tent complete with wooden pillars and fountains. Never mind that you're in China...