If you really want to go abroad and don't want to jump through the hoops necessary to land a government or corporate posting first, you can always just up and go, both Segal and Couper suggest.

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They cannot compete against plants with leaves, but if a piece of land is cleared by, say, a volcanic eruption, they are often the first things to set up shop there.

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The Ministry of Defence has been given a deadline of next May to come up with a workable plan to clean up the beach and prevent it becoming the first in the UK to be designated radioactive contaminated land.

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