Kansas State University, on the western edge of the corridor, is among five sites being considered for the National Bio and Agro-Defence Facility.

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The shipment came after more than a week of negotiations with Afghan drivers and could open the way for an aid corridor into western Afghanistan.

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In Houston, where the oil bust of the mid-1980s led to see-through buildings devoid of tenants, brokers are wary of space proliferating in the "energy corridor, " running along Interstate 10 from western Houston toward the suburb of Katy.

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U.S. and Iraqi forces have been launching a series of operations against insurgents in western Anbar towns near the Syrian border and the Euphrates River corridor since earlier this year.

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As American military vehicles and troops start to arrive in Bosnia -- taking a 30-kilometer (20-mile) road toward Tuzla that they've dubbed "Route Arizona" -- some are setting up a series of small bases in the Posavina Corridor, a narrow neck of land connecting Serb territories in eastern and western Bosnia.

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