From the first days of the founding of his firefighting company, in 1959, his men tooled round the dry scrub of the Texas oilfields in red Lincolns, easy to spot when needed.

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The treatment starts with a red wine and vitamin E exfoliant applied all over the body to scrub away dry skin cells.

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It took a long time to clean up our classrooms especially the vinyl mats that we had to scrub the mud, dry them outside and roll them out again in our classes.

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The landscape in the reserve is parched, the acacia scrub withered and the soil dry, thirsty for the coming rains.

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The smog arrives around this time every year, as loggers and farmers on Indonesia's island of Sumatra and the Indonesian part of Borneo take advantage of the dry season to clear land by burning trees and scrub.

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Twenty miles outside the small town of Taos, New Mexico, the dry, flat landscape is interrupted momentarily by a small brown-colored dome that appears amid the low, desert scrub.

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