One of its latest additions, the Sands of Time, is an oral history of the sand industry in Leighton Buzzard.

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Major activities in the area are agriculture, forest management, sand and gravel extraction, industry (diverse types), and ecotourism.

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Whitehorn and Leggett lament that many in the energy industry have their heads in the sand about the urgency of peak oil.

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To some it seemed like the Justice Department had drawn a line in the sand against online poker and set a two-year time frame to go after industry players.

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Morocco is trying to entice more western filmmakers to its fabulous landscapes of mountains, sea and sand, and it recently won the right to continue to subsidise its fledgling film industry in a trade deal with America.

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The industry uses regulated amounts of water from the Athabasca River to separate bitumen from the sand.

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