Hunters use swamp buggies--decked out with gun rests, dog boxes and winches for hauling in game--to negotiate a maze of cypress, palmettos and scrub oaks.

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It raises a question: was the path that Mr Koizumi chose to get Japan out of the economic swamp misguided, at least in part?

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Out Louder recalls the gritty swamp soul-jazz of late '60s Blue Note records.

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Scientists say rising temperatures could lead to rising ocean levels, which would in turn swamp coastal areas and islands, wipe out species, create economic havoc and amplify the impact of natural disasters such as storms, fires and droughts.

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So focused on fighting off the alligators and mosquitos out to eat them that they long ago forgot their mission was to create new markets with new products that could carry them out of the low-growth swamp.

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Next, we head out to Cape Canaveral in Florida, where Swamp Works has set up shop in an old Apollo training facility.

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He gets full comic mileage out of his monkeys and mosquitoes, but he rarely lets them swamp the actors.

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But it, like every other low-cost operator, is only too aware of the fate that befell an American airline, ValuJet, which went out of business after one of its planes crashed in a Florida swamp in May 1996 killing all 110 people on board.

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