• After half an hour or so, the Tahoe drives up to a gated complex with a barbed wire fence and from there to a small low-lying building surrounded by a handful of Iraqis in jumpsuits.

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  • The flood region is a low-lying prairie, and water about thigh-deep spread over a broad region, inundating homes and cars.

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  • Oakwood Beach, a low-lying oceanfront neighborhood, is one of those areas, the governor said.

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  • Doggerland was a low-lying region of forests and wetlands that paleontologists believe connected Britain to the European mainland.

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  • Melissa Yeager, 27 years old, evacuated her home on the second floor of a building in a low-lying area in Lewes, Del.

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  • Some 113 people are in shelters in Escambia County due to the storm, and residents of a low-lying apartment complex were ordered to evacuate, the spokesman added.

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  • Among those worse off was Louisiana resident Erica Campbell, whose rented home in a low-lying area of town was flooded for the second time in three years.

    NPR: Crests Approaching In Several Towns In Midwest

  • Emergency generators at the plant became inoperable after a tsunami topped a seawall at the coastal facility and flooded the emergency equipment that was located in a low-lying area.

    FORBES: Third Explosion Rocks Japanese Nuclear Plant; Radiation Levels Rise

  • Having fallen on hard times, he was living down the hill in Kentish Town, then a low-lying, poor village between London and Hampstead which the rich preferred to gallop through as fast as possible.

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  • Caleta was drying up and emptying out until a coalition of Chilean environmental groups, Canadian researchers and international funding agencies decided to make use of the town's most valuable asset: Chamanchaca, a low-lying cloud that passes over the place almost every night.

    ECONOMIST: Silver lining

  • Looking west from our bedroom's rear window we could sometimes see inland as far as the dark treeline of the Watchungs, a low-lying mountain range fringed by great estates and affluent, sparsely populated suburbs, the extreme edge of the known world and about eight miles from our house.

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  • This single work, made up of 53 low-lying pieces, was fashioned by a computer-directed machine extruding coils of cement.

    ECONOMIST: Anish Kapoor

  • But if you travel there a lot, it's a very low-lying island.

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  • The river flows into the broad, flat Miramichi Bay, which is sheltered from the wider Gulf of Saint Lawrence by a string of low-lying islands.

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  • The posts hit by NATO on Saturday are built on the Salala mountain, part of a chain of low-lying rugged mountains that divide Pakistan from Afghanistan.

    WSJ: Airstrike Ravages U.S.-Pakistan Ties

  • They talked about some of the tough things we have to deal with, particularly extremely low-lying areas and areas where we have a low-income black population who we have to be very sensitive about.

    NPR: Group Unveils Plans to Rebuild New Orleans

  • Josh Brolin, a slab of hair lying low across his forehead, gives White a brick-headed, baffled manner, a tormented neediness.

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  • Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said workers were inspecting flood damage at La Guardia, including the possibility that a barge may have hit a dike protecting the low-lying runways from the bay.

    WSJ: Buses Back, But Subways Could Take Days Longer

  • European countries are among the few developed supporters of renewing Kyoto, along with a chorus of developing nations and low-lying Pacific islands, which are on the front lines of climate change due to rising sea levels.

    FORBES: It's Crunch Time For Kyoto

  • The thrust of the narrative, aided with illustrations including Mr Thompson's pleasant photographs, hangs on a series of introductory and diverting potted histories of the Lake poets, writers, artists, climbers and charlatans who gave a remarkable profile to this relatively low-lying group of mountains in England's north-west.

    ECONOMIST: A green mythology

  • The MTA took extensive measures before the storm to limit the amount of water flooding into tunnels, including by boarding up ventilation grates in low-lying stations, piling sandbags at station entrances, inflating a rubber dam in the Long Island Rail Road's West Side yards in Manhattan and hastily erecting a floodwall across the mouth of the No. 3 train tunnel near East 148th Street in Harlem.

    WSJ: Salt Water Puts City's Subway System 'in Jeopardy'

  • They are a hard-working couple: Willem-Alexander regularly gives speeches at water conferences, sharing his low-lying nation's centuries of experience battling to stay dry, while soon-to-be Queen Maxima, a former investment banker, has carved out a career as a microfinance expert.

    NPR: Dutch Queen Beatrix Abdicating, Son Will Be King

  • No, in the post-Madoff era they were lying low, but they were launching a virtual film center, and I could write for the new site when it took wing.

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  • Even in low-lying Iraq, British forces found that their Lynx helicopters, designed to carry a dozen soldiers, could manage one passenger at best during the summer heat.

    ECONOMIST: Choppers are vital��and hard to find

  • The origin of the project stems from a dream Huibers said he had in 1992, in which the low-lying Netherlands was flooded by the North Sea.

    CNN: Dutchman builds replica Noah's Ark after flood dream

  • Late Wednesday, Delta Air Lines said it expected to resume limited flights on Wednesday from JFK, and that it would begin flying from LaGuardia on Thursday, a forecast that seems optimistic given the flooding and other problems at the low-lying airport.

    FORBES: Hurricane Sandy Deals A Body Blow To Air Travel

  • Many low-lying nations have used the UN conference, which is currently under way in Doha, to call for a threshold temperature rise less than 2C, arguing that even a 2C rise will jeopardise their future.

    BBC: Carbon emissions are 'too high' to curb climate change

  • This was a challenge since seventy percent of the inland waterway system is in rural areas, in low-lying valleys like Pittsburgh, or in low-income neighborhoods not well served by the Internet.

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