The woman's son said his mother, who did not want to be identified, planned to have her own ashes scattered with her husband's.

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Scraps of lead scattered over the rubbery floor have to be cleared up with explosion-proof vacuum cleaners.

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It showed a heavily damaged building as well as what appeared to be a chicken farm with some chickens pecking around in debris scattered with dead birds.

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His desire for his ashes to be scattered at Dien Bien Phu, so that he might lie with his fallen comrades, was refused by the Vietnamese government.

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But the old edge-of-the-world feel can be conjured up with a drive past the ghost town ruins of former mines scattered along the pass.

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On Thursday, it said most places would have a dry day with sunny periods, but there would be chances of a few scattered showers during the day.

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But in February, Mayer also said Yahoo will be better served with just 12 to 15 mobile applications, down from a "scattered" portfolio of as many as 75 different programs in recent years.

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In regions with small schools scattered over a large area, providing support was going to be very expensive, particularly as computers grew older.

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With the opposition parties fragmented and scattered, however, the PT may well be in power long enough to be held accountable to its plans.

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With so many sites scattered across the West Bank, the matter had to be addressed when the area was divided up under the Oslo Accords in 1995.

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