On 4, 000 sun-baked acres of mesquite, blackbrush and cactus 60 miles south of San Antonio, Tex.

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Every one has 20-feet-high walls, built of sun-baked mud studded with pebbles to withstand machinegun bursts.

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Uzbekistan's Tulyaganova failed to make any impact on her American opponent's serve and was clearly out of her depth on a sun-baked court two.

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On the sun-baked streets of Cairo, the reaction has been muted.

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Players spent the first two days complaining about the slow greens, then got hit with sun-baked, pool table-slick greens Saturday, before a Sunday drizzle turned them into soap sponges again.

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And with each new layer of stone the air got warmer and began to smell, at first something like a laundry hamper, then more like inside the mouth of a sun-baked cadaver.

NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

It simply sits there in undistinguished anonymity on a low rise beneath a few scraggly trees, several miles from the nearest highway, almost invisible from the sun-baked ruts of a nearby secondary road.

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Outside of festival times, the quiet village offers a dose of understated Algarvian charm: sun-baked white houses feature Moorish design details, such as coloured bars around the doorways, while the petite central square is flanked by a lovely 16th-century church and a tiny cafe selling delicious homemade pastries, cakes and ice cream.

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