And he appealed to the public for help in trying to find the weapon used in Tuesday's shooting, which sent hundreds of students running from the suburban campus and swarms of sheriff's deputies, police and firefighters rushing to the scene.

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Here again, live action merges seamlessly with digital artistry -- human horsemen by the thousands riding against swarms of Sauron's orcs, whose ranks are augmented by mountainous, mastodonish creatures called Mumakil, plus Fellbeast dragons that swoop down on their prey like Stuka bombers.

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How does an online-listings service help estate agents, which already have swarms of offices in Britain's town centres?

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Islanders are being warned about an increased number of bee swarms in Jersey, according to the island's Bee Keepers Association.

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If Polaroid wanted to make a splash, it worked: Gaga's appearance produced a massive crowd, swarms of paparazzi and countless headlines.

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Researchers in the field, such as Ernest Robinson, the head of the Aerospace Corporation's picosatellite project, dream of a day when swarms of nanosatellites (weighing less than 10kg) and picosatellites (weighing less than 1kg) might be used to establish a global navigation and communications network around Mars.

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Older farmers who remember that crisis and see the big swarms nowadays "stop farming, because they know that it's useless, " said Huynh, the FAO's emergency and rehabilitation coordinator in Madagascar.

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In many areas, the moon jellyfish swarms are usually accompanied by the largest species in Britain, the lion's mane jellyfish, which has a powerful sting.

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It's a beautiful place to break out the tent again, but be ready for the swarms of flies in the morning.

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