Lynne Hayes, from the National Playing Fields Association and founder of Save Open Spaces Wales, complained that playing fields were not protected in Wales.

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Christopher Leonard, a reporter for the Associated Press, writes that even with high employment, employers are having a hard time finding qualified people to fill open jobs in fields like nursing, engineering and energy research.

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Nevertheless, in a continent where education is a way to the city, a suit and an office job, finding well-qualified people to stand in the open fields all day will not be easy.

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He pointed out that Professor Henshaw's experiments were carried out in the open air, and that houses provided natural "shielding" from the electromagnetic fields.

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Residents live in rows of tightly packed, dilapidated homes, and wind-blown garbage clutters the streets and open fields.

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But much of the open water where they gather has iced up and the discarded sugar beet tops they graze on in surrounding fields are frozen over.

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Explores some of the world's most remote mountain terrain while continuing Jones' mission to camp deep in the backcountry and on the summits of unridden lines to access nearly vertical spines and wide-open powder fields.

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