It is not just the loss of the trees but the loss of the trees for a generation.

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As a traveling golfer you will inevitably play courses that are unfamiliar, and you will have questions about distances, and the laser solves them quickly and easily, and can measure not just the pin, but to trees, mounds, people, and other objects for lay-up or carry distances.

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But apparently life in the prison, which is beautifully preserved, with its well-manicured yard under large monkeypod trees just off the main drag, was not all bad.

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In the end, it may just be disease that is attacking the Dutch trees, not our need to download mobile information at high speeds.

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During the first crash I thought of my sister, who had just had a baby, and that if I was to go into the trees I probably was not going to make it.

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