• The so-called "Devonwall" proposals, to even-out constituency sizes, would have meant a cross-River Tamar seat.

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  • This is the first view scientists have had of a fluvial system - one relating to a river or stream -- from the surface of Mars.

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  • Some boosters want a cross-river tram network, which would end by Rye Lane and make up for the Tube's almost-total bypassing of south-east London.

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  • He and his family moved from a three-bedroom home to a four-bedroom home, about a half-mile away, in River Forest, Ill.

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  • Expect to be on call for any crisis that ?arises, even if it conflicts with a long-planned, once-in-a-lifetime Mekong River cruise.

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  • He said the old bridge was affected by tides, a fast-flowing river, and foundations that had "taken a pounding" over the years.

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  • Instead of building a great wall across the Xingu to create a massive reservoir, Belo Monte is designed as a run-of-river dam, a technique that harnesses the natural flow of the river to drive the turbines.

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  • When you get to the crest of the bridge over the Thames River, you can see the center of global innovation in undersea warfare a mile down-river to your right, the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics.

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  • Mr Simplot himself, an avowed lover of skiing, duck shooting and the great outdoors, was attacked in the 1970s for his support for new coal-fired electricity plants along the Snake river and for a scheme to generate hydro-power by diverting water from another river into a vast underground tube.

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  • The planning application, submitted to Wiltshire Council, also includes a pedestrian and off-road cycle route, locks, pedestrian and road bridges, a new weir on the River Avon and a hydro-electric turbine.

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  • And one of the many impediments to a long-mooted scheme to use the San Juan river for a second trans- ismithian canal is that it marks the frontier between Nicaragua and Costa Rica : efforts to patrol it frequently spark tension.

    ECONOMIST: Border disputes

  • And judges picked Mr Hollins from the nominations for rescuing a drowning man and his dog from a fast-flowing river.

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  • It was a little camp in the California foothills: a woodsy reserve dotted with old oak trees sloping down to a well-shaded river.

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  • Qiaotou, for instance, which sits on a toxin-ridden river not far from the city, makes 70% of all the buttons used in China.

    ECONOMIST: Boom time in capitalist Wenzhou

  • Atoms of elements with boiling points below the temperature of a particular plate pass over it, just as water runs over a warm river-bed.

    ECONOMIST: Nuclear waste

  • And in eight townships in a low-lying river delta, 95 percent of the homes had severe damage which amounts to 2 million people, he says.

    NPR: Reaching Family in Myanmar Proves Difficult

  • The showiest is Dartmeet, a spacious beige suite that has an almost equally capacious bathroom featuring an immense rectangular tub, sauna, steam room, and French doors opening to a river-view terrace.

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  • It may be their budget offering (apart from a few river-facing rooms, it has shared bathrooms), but the art direction is no less obsessive, down to the potted palms in the lobby and a clanky old lift.

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  • Transatlantic tales of overflowing lagoons depositing industrial quantities of waste into local rivers and waterways do little to inspire confidence (one spill in 2005 killed 375, 000 fish and contaminated a 20-mile stretch of a river in New York state).

    ECONOMIST: Industrial dairy farming

  • Crossing downtown Seoul is the Cheonggye stream -- a river that was covered by a road until it was unearthed in 2005 and transformed into one of the city center's most popular urban oases and worth a stroll in the evening.

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  • Meanwhile, Shanghai residents, who are already jittery about water contamination from the dead pigs, are concerned over hundreds of dead carp that have been fished out of a man-made river in the city's Songjiang district since last week, China Daily says.

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  • The problem is that the fish that formed the base of the hatchery brood stock used to replenish salmon in Maine's rivers came from the Penobscot River until 1992, when state officials began a river-specific stocking program that placed descendents only in rivers their stock came from.

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  • His includes a life-size terracotta army, a full orchestra with instruments and a river landscape with cranes, swans and geese - and archaeologists have barely begun the excavation.

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  • There is sailing, jet-boating, sandboarding and helicopter flights, or more gentle outdoor pleasures like chasing the reflections on a mirror-calm Gordon River cruise, riding through the rainforests on a restored heritage railway or being driven to the heart of it all in a comfortable 4x4.

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  • Despite abuse from a 15-pound baby girl, an attack by a pack of feral raccoons, a chewing by an ADD-addled river otter named Sidney, a ride to the bottom of a salt water pool with a dolphin, and a stomping from a 7, 400 pound elephant named Valerie, the Casio had survived.

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  • The project included a widening of the river-facing promenade and a streamlining of the East Zhongshan thoroughfare.

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  • Three middle-age blowhards (a supercilious retired soldier, a dull canon and the puffed-up owner of a river bathhouse) vie for the affections of a comely magician's assistant, who seems open to dalliances despite a relationship with her milquetoast employer (wonderfully underplayed by Mr. Menzel).

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  • In 2006, a pack of six Mackenzie River wolves - a North American wolf - were put down because they were "not portraying their natural behaviour".

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  • In October 2012, The Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed suit in the Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, California to reopen an environmental review of a 100-turbine North Sky River wind project and a smaller adjacent Jawbone project in the mountains north of the Mojave Desert over threats to California condors.

    FORBES: Environmental Groups Strongly Endorse "None Of The Above" Energy Plans

  • In September, James W. Heselden, 62, accidentally steered a Segway off a 30-foot cliff and into a river while riding on his estate in West Yorkshire about 140 miles from London.

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