What could lead from here to a teeming biosphere, I wondered, but also to an empty rock like Mars?
Once here, many made their homes in a teeming and bustling Lower Manhattan.
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The secret to understanding a teeming metropolis lies in exploring its neighbourhoods.
On Tuesday, I returned to a teeming city of nearly 10 million, filled with skyscrapers and thriving centers of culture and commerce.
The desert village in the famous cantina scene is replaced by a teeming city, bustling with robots and aliens that weren't there before.
That vigour was part of Mr Bellow's legacy, along with a delight in argument and a teeming passion for ideas and culture of all kinds.
The Federal Communications Commission, created seven decades ago to oversee America's scarcity of airwaves, now sits astride a teeming trillion-dollar industry in an era of bandwidth opulence.
Now, the corporations can do it cheaper in Asia, casually shedding their Mexican workers, and Juarez has become a teeming recruitment pool for the cartels and killers.
It saw much of Dhaka, a teeming and congested city, disguised as Pyongyang, with well-swept streets, fairy-lights on the road-dividers and 40, 000 security officers guarding the visitors.
The Jakarta that I once knew has grown into a teeming city of nearly 10 million, with skyscrapers that dwarf the Hotel Indonesia, and thriving centers of culture and of commerce.
After the canvas was cleaned, it became clear that Ensor's nightmarish vision of a boisterous city boulevard teeming with banners, placards and a massed, modern rabble was shaped not only by the artist's deep-seated pessimism but by his critical view of contemporary art, captured here in dazzling displays of virtuoso painting that are as variable, original and richly parodic as the painter's darkly comic brigade.
As a result, the Old City is still a place of shadowy mosques and teeming bazaars clustered around the Charminar, a 16th-century landmark with four distinctive minarets.
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So it was entirely fitting that Penn Station and Grand Central were conceived and constructed on the most lavish scale, as triumphal departure points for those travelling great distances across a land of teeming possibilities, and as monumental entrances for those many people who were visiting New York to get a glimpse of the future.
Today Mr Fong is a state assemblyman representing Silicon Valley, a place teeming with successful Chinese-Americans such as the co-founders of YouTube and Yahoo!
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In an increasingly crowded marketplace teeming with entertainment options, a bold-face star isn't enough to guarantee--and maintain--widespread interest.
But he has faced longer odds, as a tubercular 12-year-old put to work in a poor, teeming Hong Kong.
But when summer comes, this place is stranded, a sodden island teeming with mosquitoes, surrounded by marsh and water, reachable only by air or riverboat.
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Moreover, the jurors were required to pass through a room in the court building that was teeming with the hostile glares of the relatives of the defendants--a scene about as intimidating as possible.
Simple language can be elegant, and deceptively plain declarative syntax is capable of hinting at a rich emotional complexity teeming underneath.
More placid than Egypt with its intense, teeming vitality, Tunisia has had a calmer transition, and has often been described as the success story of the Arab Awakenings.
The first of the three parks we visited was Lake Manyara National Park, a lush nature reserve teeming with all kinds of animals, including giraffes, elephants, exotic birds and baboons.
Remarkably in the circumstances parts of the West Bank and Gaza are a war zone, teeming with Israeli soldiers and armed Palestinians the election campaign has looked free and fair (see article).
"In a world that is teeming with brand messages, with sponsorships everywhere, intimacy is really just the next thing to go, " said Jon Ray, a 24-year-old marketing consultant in Austin, Texas, and author of the blog Who is Jon Ray?
Their home, once teeming with activity, sits quietly on a tree-lined street.
For the entire quarter-century that FORBES has been measuring global billionaires, Li has controlled a huge swath of the teeming city of 7 million people below.
The most lavish of these involves the goblins and their underground lair teeming with hundreds of the creatures in a complicated labyrinth full of so much detail you could watch it several times and keep finding something new happening in some corner in the background.
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From here flows the Santa Ana river, a major water source for the teeming millions of Rio.
In the country's teeming capital, Tehran, the repression is a shade less overt.
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