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...imate: arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers Terrain: mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest Land use: 12% arable land; NEGL%... ...cludes NEGL% irrigated Environment: damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; soil degradation, desertification, overgrazing, deforestation,... ...ers ; hot, clear, dry summers; interior is cooler and wetter Terrain: mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast Land use: 21% arable land; ... ...nd especially common in summer Terrain: mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow, discontinuous coastal plain Land use: 3% arable land; ... ...imate: temperate; snowy, cold winters with cool, dry summers Terrain: rugged mountains dissected by narrow valleys Land use: 2% arable land; 0% perman... ...ico Land boundaries: 2,295 km total Coastline: 4,675 km total (2,068 km Pen- insular Malaysia, 2,607 km East Malaysia) Maritime claims: Continental sh...

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...lost branches and a ball that had become entangled in the sodden brush. As insular as she was, some version of the widely promulgated account had not... ...shouldered stink bug traversed on her body most intimately. She was their mountains, their valleys, their rivers, their sinkholes. And there, on her... ...nted to go on a trip to this Southeast Asian country so far away from her insular life in the family home in New Orleans. The photographs of the Gol...

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...ou know that there is a closet back here? And in it is another one of your mountains of folded underwear. Why would anybody need so much underwear? - ... ...th those strangers within seeming to him as a family of distant and tacit, insular beings who were cognate in their desire to arrive in a train which ... ...the mesmerizing intensity of the sun--the left an entry into an altogether insular and comatose nation). Obtaining a Laotian visa for a thousand baht;... ...or a contract with another being rather than the circumspect reticence and insular freedom of being alone was willing to risk opprobrium rather than h... ...ir true figurative form of human vultures, and yet he did not mind for, as insular as he now was, to have his corpse clawed, scraped off, and devoured...

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...or another. Sung Ki lit a cigarette and sat on a balcony that overlooked the mountains and rice patties of Umsong. After a few more moments of silence... ...d (encounters both sexual and cultural). Large buildings were like the small mountains of Umsong with a topping of cloud on a rainy day--monuments of ... ...m to its domain that edified and exhilarated his appetites and his love. The mountains, until recently, transported his imagination to green blankets ... ...ends; and yet some of unknown Antarctica, a dreamy non-asthmatic land of ice mountains and valleys. In such a place dreamed about and sketched from he... ... of her own brothel. She wanted to take him to Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains too but common sense prevailed. She had second thoughts about t... ..., thought. But now all was different. She, an American, had knocked off her insular American shell (the little she had possessed) while in Jakarta. S... ... if his bashfulness was less contrived than what she might suppose. Soon her insular hubris of indomitability began to thaw like Arctic permafrost. Th... ...rmined supercilious will that rebounded her back to her stoic, rational, and insular existence. There in her supercilious brain, amidst the endless wa... ...e was once again in America, the country that made up so many of his years. Insular capsule that it was under the current chauvinistic and militant r...

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... Undead Pg 1600 Socrates Pg 1601 The evil of Science Pg 1602 The evil of Insularity Pg 1612 Intensity and Purity Pg 1616 The evil of the Un... ...y night, no matter how cold or hot it is, and eat cooked food; when there are mountains of fresh vegetables and fruits and nuts available that do no... ...ESS Chapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 196 This form of insular awareness created fear. Humans live in a state of constant, in... ... cultural split inside what once used to be the close-knit social unit of the insular family. In essence: the crime of all tool-based societies is t... ..., hate, ego, greed, fear, separateness, arrogance, blindness, dehumanization, insularity, numbness, non-awareness. They are all the same thing. Th... ...mories, denial, lying, silence, fear, secrecy, non- awareness, normality, ego, insularity, numbness, non-connectiveness, dehumanization, is all the sa... ...to our origins? Now it is buried under 53 million years of soil erosion and mountains of sand. It was the one place in Africa during the Age of V... ...s the destruction of Life. The earth, the ground, the valleys and plains and mountains cannot be separated from the eco-systems they are in and sepa... ...tood out in the middle of a clearing, or a peak that stood out from the other mountains, or an animal that was taller, or faster than other animals, ...

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...ouldn’t shake. Eons ago, she’d left Georgia, and never considered returning to the insular South of her youth. But who could have foreseen that ir... ...vani, the last rebel she’d traveled with before she left his cave camp in the green mountains. Her former World News colleagues didn’t know his fat...

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...ght. Do we still get soul? The blues? Jazz? Or do we just get a precious and insular digital subculture, whose cultural experiments never reach the ma... ...n there was, for example, a desire of the people living in Denver to see the mountains again. Similarly, the people living in Los An- geles had a desi...

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...eople like Sese Seko, Hussein, and Marcos drooled over money. The ever-heightening mountains of greenbacks in their vaults soothed them, filled the... ...en lead to depression and anxiety. Other, fMRI-based studies, demonstrated how the insular cortex, in charge of experiencing pain, became active wh... ...ontempt for manual labor... growing gulf between wealth and poverty... the growing insularity of the elites... growing impatience with the constrai... ...es, dogmatic quarrels, name-calling. The debate grew less public, more esoteric and insular. There are no "third places", civic institutions which "...

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...eople like Sese Seko, Hussein, and Marcos drooled over money. The ever-heightening mountains of greenbacks in their vaults soothed them, filled the... ...en lead to depression and anxiety. Other, fMRI-based studies, demonstrated how the insular cortex, in charge of experiencing pain, became active wh... ...ontempt for manual labor... growing gulf between wealth and poverty... the growing insularity of the elites... growing impatience with the constrai... ...es, dogmatic quarrels, name-calling. The debate grew less public, more esoteric and insular. There are no "third places", civic institutions which "...

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...ear, and Italy is the most fortunate land in the world for road metal; her mountains are solid road metal, and in this Venetian plain you need but to ... ... Italians had just captured the east- ern half. Behind this again rose the mountains to the east of the Isonzo which the Austrians still held. The Iso... ...which the Austrians still held. The Isonzo came towards me from out of the mountains, in a great westward curve. Fifteen or sixteen miles away where i... ...at westward curve. Fifteen or sixteen miles away where it emerged from the mountains lay the pleasant and prosperous town of Goritzia, and at the west... ...for defence, and the Austrians were so surprised by the rapid storm of the mountains to the north-west of it and of the Carso to the south-east, that ... ...e of faintly hostile, faintly contemptuous apathy. It is still so entirely insular that it shudders at the thought of the Channel T un- nel. This is t...

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... its ruined walls whereon date-trees were growing, was sighted, and on the mountains beyond were espied vast coffee-fields. Passepartout was rav- ishe... ...andallah and Pounah; and, passing Pauwell, they entered the defiles of the mountains, with their basalt bases, and their summits crowned with thick an... ... master.” The conversation fell again. During the night the train left the mountains behind, and passed Nassik, and the next day proceeded over the fl... ...d not be done on the railway. The train entered the defiles of the Sutpour Mountains, which separate the Khandeish from Bundelcund, towards evening. T... ...of being built. This line, owing to the capricious turnings of the Vindhia Mountains, did not pursue a straight course. The Parsee, who was quite fami... ...know; perhaps—” “Ah, if you would only go on with us! An agent of the Pen- insular Company, you know, can’t stop on the way! You were only going to Bo...

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...es, whose French was not strong, could hold no conversation with them. T o insular minds, whether Scottish or English, every devia- tion of the Gallic... ... Madame Yolande, with his father’s goodwill, for Alsace and T yrol be his, mountains that might be in our ain Hielands, they tell me.’ ‘Methougnt,’ sa... ...stance?’ ‘Save that this land is as flat as a bannock, I’d have said ’twas mountains.’ ‘Mountains they are, young man!’ said Madame de Ste. Petronelle... ... wood by a tangled path, then over a wide moor covered with heather, those mountains, which had at first excited the old lady’s alarm, growing more di... ... words made them understand that he must be released, pointing towards the mountains, and comporting himself much like a dog who wanted to be let out.... ...h, he was mounted on Ringan’s sure-footed pony, which seemed at home among mountains. Sigismund himself, and the Tirolese among his followers, were ch...

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... 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 58 Br... ...very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by ... ... into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill side blue. But though the picture lies thus ... ... though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains. A curious sight; these bashful bears, these timid warrior whalem... ...to drop the axe and snatch the whale lance. Many are as green as the Green Mountains whence they came. In some things you would think them but a few h... ...med purposely sit ting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable. The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there the... ...ir ice covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side t... ...s, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices,and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed... ...ing ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encom passed by all the horrors...

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...en a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation. But he had saved himself by not becoming a mere pamp... ...across divides in summer blizzards, shivered un der the midnight sun on naked mountains between the timber line and the eternal snows, dropped into s...

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...very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by ... ... into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill- side blue. But though the picture lies thus... ... though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains. A curious sight; these bashful bears, these timid warrior whalem... ...to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance. Many are as green as the Green Mountains whence they came. In some things you would think them but a few h... ...eemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable. The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there the... ...ir ice-covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side t... ...s, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they haile... ...oul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, un- der torrents’ beds, unerringly I rush! Naught’s an obstacle,... ...ing ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors o...

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...iod, there arose a great charac- ter in our art, I mean the Old Man of the Mountains. He was a shining light, indeed, and I need not tell you, that th... ...ad been given, the first official toast of the day was, The Old Man of the Mountains—drunk in sol- emn silence. T oad-in-the-hole returned thanks in a... ...turned thanks in a neat speech. He lik- ened himself to the Old Man of the Mountains, in a few brief allusions, that made the company absolutely yell ... ...omes armed into courage to wander for days in their syl- van recesses. The mountains of the Vosges on the eastern frontier of France, have never attra... ... the first tidings of any such event. And it is to be noted that, from our insular situation, and the multi- tude of our frigates disposable for the r... ...dvancing rapidly along the valleys, and heard afar by its echoes among the mountains. “Hush!” I said, as I bent my ear earthwards to listen—“hush!—thi...

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...ough such would not have been the utterance of the period) with a fine old insular accent. Angers figures with importance in early English history: it... ...the most brilliant feature of their city. Here were pyra- mids of bottles, mountains of bottles, to say nothing of cases and cabinets of bottles. The ... ...ses, pergolas and vines, terraces on the roofs of houses, soft, iridescent mountains, a warm yellow light,—what more could the difficult tourist want?... ...ay left us no time to drive five miles further, above a pass in the little mountains—it had beck- oned to us in the morning, when we came in sight of ... ...loated disreputably, with its legs in the air. On the present occasion the mountains of the Ardeche, where it had been raining for a month, had sent d... ...an it stands at present. It is very true that, though the 185 Henry James mountains in the sixteenth century can hardly have been in a different posi...

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...e his own smile; an extraordinary touch of portraiture, or else a scoff at insular self-satisfaction; at any rate, it commended itself to the memory. ... ..., mother,’ and slept again fast. Giacinta saw that they were nearer to the mountains. Mountain-shad- ows were thrown out, and long lank shadows of cyp... ... wavings of hands, she was driven out of his sight. CHAPTER XXV ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AFTER PARTING from Vittoria, Angelo made his way to an inn, where... ...ned; ‘they have gone on to Bormio, and expect to catch her there or in the mountains.’ ‘Better there than in the mountains, my dear; don’t you think s... ...so?’ The girl said that she would not like to meet those fellows among the mountains. ‘Suppose you were among the mountains, and those fel- lows came ... ... I have a maid from one of the villages, a willing girl. We ride up to the mountains; to-morrow we cross the pass; there is a gla- cier. Val di Non so...

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... the first tidings of any such event. And it is to be noted that, from our insular situation, and the multitude of our frigates disposable for the rap... ...ry, advancing rapidly along the valleys, and heard afar by echoes from the mountains. “Hush!” I said, as I bent my ear earthwards to listen—“hush!—thi... ...ecomes armed into courage to wander for days in their sylvan recesses. The mountains of the Vosges, on the eastern frontier of France, have never attr...

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...n of a magna- nimity overcast with simplicity, which Nevil held to be pure insular English; our type of splendid manhood, not discov- erable elsewhere... ...th your friend Renee. And those are the hills of Petrarch’s tomb? They are mountains.’ They were purple beneath a large brooding cloud that hung again... ...swer to his attachment. Probably she went to work transparently, after the insular fashion of opening a spiritual mystery with the lancet. Renee suffe... ...g silver. There of all the world you might imagine Gods to sit. A crowd of mountains end- less in range, erect, or flowing, shattered and arid, or lea... ...shattered and arid, or leaning in smooth lustre, hangs above the gulf. The mountains are sovereign Alps, and the sea is beneath them. The whole gi- ga... ...sle, in a trice; and if you choose to comport yourself ac- cording to your insular notion of freedom, you are bound to march out to the measured groun... ...owing more monstrous in proportion to his forgetfulness of the details, as mountains gather vastness to the eye at a certain remove. Though he could n... ...rrect. A want of spirituality,’ Rosamund said critically, using one of the insular commonplaces, after that manner of fastening upon what there is not... ...aly!’ Renee exclaimed: ‘Italy, or Greece: anywhere where we have sunlight. Mountains and valleys are my dream. Promise it, Nevil. I will obey you; but...