There are cowboys and debutantes, Northern spotted owls and bison, cityscapes and pueblos, mesas and dams, gathering storms and controlled burns.

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Rock layers here remained nicely horizontal, and the result has been the table-topped mesas that are some of the most distinctive features of the American Southwest.

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It had mesas, ice fields, and oceans of dunes.

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Se reportaron algunas irregularidades y algunos votantes se quejaban que algunas mesas de sufragio haban abierto muy tarde otras haban cerrado muy temprano y algunos centros de votacin reportaron demoras en el proceso.

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To the west he looks out on mesas for 40 miles, and from his north-facing windows he occasionally catches glimpses of wild mustangs roaming the hills of thousands of acres owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

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But the 92121 zip code--located some 25 kilometers north of downtown, east of the rolling mesas of La Jolla--boasts 89 biotech companies, the most densely packed cluster in the U.S., says Juan Enriquez, director of the Life Science Project at Harvard Business School.

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