Merrill's "A Scattering of Salts" — still deliciously unfinished, still reading.
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Some are just a scattering of makeshift tables in alleyways.
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Perfect with a scattering of pomegranate seeds for color and crunch.
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It still has a scattering of gentlemen's farms and Gilded Age mansions.
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He'd seen a scattering of empty white folding chairs throughout the Armory.
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As the season progressed, a scattering of NFL players joined Kaepernick in solidarity.
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Family, friends, fans of Browne and Platt and a scattering of local residents.
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They are difficult to predict and they may involve a scattering of concerns.
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Beginning in the early 2000s, a few local galleries supported a scattering of artists.
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There's a scattering of outdoor gardens serving as hubs for conversation and trading ideas.
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It was desolate here, no other hikers, nothing but birds and a scattering of chipmunks.
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It is an open Meeting, so there's a scattering of the old among the young.
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He was intentionally walked in the ninth, drawing a scattering of boos from Mets fans.
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Small fields with low dry-stone walls enclosed a scattering of cows, sheep and goats.
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This week we're thinking roasted fish beneath a scattering of capers and a squeeze of lemon.
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The contest promises to be tough and crowded, with a scattering of outsiders now piling in.
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There are a scattering of wide-eyed rookies and wise veterans to round out the squad.
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But there was a scattering of visual evidence to tie it together and explain it simply.
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In 1993, the Oslo Accords granted limited autonomy to Palestinians in a scattering of disconnected islets.
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A scattering of designers are invoking — and denying — the label to assert their identities and ours.
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Both offered him lukewarm endorsements at the convention; Mr. McConnell was greeted with a scattering of boos.
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As in a scattering of such cases in China, the students had become incensed by official inaction.
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A scattering of fashion features, including one in the November French Vogue, have reinforced her star status.
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The settlement is made up of a scattering of hamlets around a school, clinic and Buddhist monastery.
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It began in July as a scattering of tents along the side of an exit ramp in Minneapolis.
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There's a scattering of support voiced, some from people who aren't members of the very vocal Unite faction.
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The only break from this monochrome dreariness is a scattering of suspiciously decorative cerulean chairs in the mix.
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"Wouldn't be interested," he says, almost snapping, and pours from the black pouch a scattering of Scrabble tiles.
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A scattering of oil pumps nod lazily as they extract a few dollars of crude from deep below.
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At the entrance to the office was a scattering of sandals, rhinestone-studded wedges, and frayed straw slippers.
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As a bonus, fans are also given a scattering of interesting new insights into Harry, Dumbledore and Voldemort.
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There's also a scattering of eight entries, running both across and down, that are simply clued with a "—".
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The play has only one set—two gilt-edged mirrors, a scattering of gilt chairs—and only six characters.
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Nor should mediating a dispute over a scattering of small islands be dismissed as somehow beneath the United States.
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Sometimes, along the top of the painting, he colors the shards black and adds a scattering of white marks.
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You're aiming for a scattering of the pulp, each tiny juice vesicle remaining distinct until it hits your teeth.
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Flash a scattering of numerals on a screen for just 210 milliseconds, then cover the numbers with white squares.
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What had been a scattering of small towns is now a major metropolitan area housing around four million people.
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By then, the shelves were mostly bare, except for a scattering of stuffed animals, tween jewelry and polyester pillows.
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More than a year after Mr. Burton revealed his big plans, Orchard has completed just a scattering of transactions.
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Your theme clues will probably be question-marked, but you could have a scattering of other question marks, too.
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We remember our whole neighborhood, just a scattering of houses along a gravel road, smelling of barbecued chicken and fish.
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Harper got a scattering of boos when he came to the plate in the first inning and throughout the game.
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Soon, all that is left is a scattering of petals and twisted stems, curled on the ground like punctuation marks.
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But it's a risky proposition to provoke conflict over a scattering of rocks in the South China Sea, analysts say.
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At a New Jersey store, the shelves were mostly bare, save for a scattering of stuffed animals and tween jewelry.
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Slice the duck breasts thickly against the grain and serve, maybe with a scattering of sliced scallions across the top.
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A scattering of gobo chips on top serves the same function as the potato sticks on a Venezuelan hot dog.
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The book's cover features little more than a scattering of sans serif letters, but does so in an artfully arranged way.
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But years ago, when you were in the womb, it began as little more than a scattering of undifferentiated stem cells.
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They were a scattering of words that didn't make any sense together but sounded nice when sliding directly into your ear.
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And, if a scattering of claims on Reddit are to be believed, that window may have just been blown wide open.
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In the year of the $1000 iPhone Amazon just announced a scattering of new gadgets and none cost more than $150.
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It was topped with a tumble of delicately dressed arugula, a scattering of cucumber slices and halved and peeled grape tomatoes.
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For this show expect the usual mix of top-tier computers, TVs and appliances with a scattering of voice assistances included throughout.
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Remove the pan from the oven, top with a scattering of thin-sliced jalapeño, and squeeze lime juice over the whole. Dinner!
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A panicked friend from Gumsa, a scattering of mud huts 6 miles from Dapchi, warned him he needed to leave the town immediately.
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Their first stop was a large vacant lot overrun by low shrubs, a green carpet of vines, and a scattering of banana trees.
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There are a scattering of restaurants and cafes in town, and Old Pasadena, Pasadena's pedestrian-friendly shopping district, is about six miles away.
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"It is important that we remember today," Mr. Obama told an audience of 1,075, including a scattering of Buddhist monks in saffron robes.
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Hot pink stucco houses tumbled down a country road, and a scattering of wire chicken coops backed up against freshly laid brick sidewalks.
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" She described his plans as a "scattering of measures, some of which address our demands, but without any financial means of enforcing them.
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Leave a dome of mincemeat coming out of the tops, then scatter the apples with pinches of butter and a scattering of demerara sugar.
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The neighborhood is known for its large stock of Queen Anne houses, with a scattering of other late Victorian and early 500th-century designs.
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A scattering of heavily guarded buildings straddles the demarcation line between the two countries where the 1953 armistice suspending the Korean War was signed.
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Upon his return to Saudi Arabia, he worked his way up through the ranks of reporters at a scattering of Saudi and regional newspapers.
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Rural and historically agricultural, it still has several working dairy farms, as well as a scattering of older houses on large expanses of land.
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You choose toppings as on a pizza, but the tlayudas are just as lovely with nothing more than quesillo and a scattering of shredded cabbage.
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Largely French, but with a scattering of Chinese and Americans, few in the registered crowd were likely to have been to a traditional auction before.
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Because the probe was pointed back toward the sun, it saw a scattering of light rays, which is responsible for the spectrum of haze around Earth.
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On a map, the tiny island chain is represented as a scattering of dots floating in the Mediterranean, between the coasts of Sicily and North Africa.
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Although previous efforts by Facebook to take down accounts linked with spreading disinformation aimed at elections, the Iranian-backed campaign was targeting a scattering of issues.
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PARIS — Paris Fashion Week went out with a bang on Tuesday, thanks to a scattering of glittering parties held on the penultimate night of the calendar.
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Yet I came away haunted by a scattering of sights and sounds—above all, by the recitations of the limbless man, which thrum with genuine yearning.
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Lunch displays the chef Dennis Baker's ambition and verve, with dishes like raw kingfish with cultured cream, thinly sliced cucumber and a scattering of succulent leaves.
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Indonesia Dispatch KOMODO NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia — The Komodo dragon, a 10-foot lizard native only to a scattering of islands in Indonesia, flicked its forked tongue.
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Indonesia Dispatch KOMODO NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia — The Komodo dragon, a 10-foot lizard native only to a scattering of islands in Indonesia, flicked its forked tongue.
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Along the way, he offers insight into how words come into being and a look at origins of a scattering of words: inkling, deadline, apprenticeship, balderdash.
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She moved the lovers indoors and set them against one of her signature diamond-quilted, yellow-ochre backgrounds, adding a scattering of throw pillows on the floor.
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The group has been dropping a scattering of digital singles recently; the latest is "Root," a pattering plea for earnest communion in a time of digital simulacrum.
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At the square, there appeared to be many Jews and some non-Jews, students and well-dressed Parisians, many retired people and a scattering of the young.
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The two golden stripes represent rays of sun, reflecting Meghan's sun-filled days growing up in L.A. There is also a scattering of golden poppies, California's state flower.
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Across the gold-and-russet sandstone canyon, the brawny rock formations sprouted contemporary art: an iridescent spaceshiplike sculpture, a glinting metal tunnel, a scattering of brightly painted spheres.
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Further down the path, commuters rush past the remnants of the stampede: A jumble of sandals and shoes, a bright blue scarf and a scattering of crushed marigolds.
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Only close up can you glimpse an image of a city, almost too murky to see: the outlines of an apartment building, a scattering of roofs and chimneys.
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And the Senate amendment, released on Tuesday by Senator Orrin Hatch, who heads the finance committee, included a scattering of carve-outs for interest groups large and small.
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Over this go juicy tomatoes and cucumber limned with vinegar and olive oil, and finally a scattering of cilantro, dill and raw jalapeños — just a few, but vital.
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Behind these tools of the trade, which also seem to include a scattering of pills, the artist is at work on two canvases, their backs turned to the viewer.
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In one of her latest posts to Instagram, the makeup artist gives classic matte crimson lips the Minnie Mouse treatment, thanks to a scattering of perfectly painted white dots.
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On a recent evening, he visits Buzuta village, a scattering of mudwall huts on a rutted dirt road in western Rwanda, not far from the shore of Lake Kivu.
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But even there, among tonal tailoring and naval overcoats, were novelty sweaters with a scattering of patches — they, a brand representative whispered, typically are the first to sell out.
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In addition to the attack Monday night, a scattering of rockets and mortars have struck the Bagram base itself, according to Afghan officials, although most did not cause casualties.
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In "The Bouquet, Finished," published in The Times in 1968, she wrote: We cannot call it important,a scattering of petals onto a tableafter a week in my room.
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In part of the Islamic State encampment which the SDF seized a few days ago, collapsed tents and fallen palm trees lay among a scattering of rubble and twisted metal.
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The art critic Gustave Geffroy, who Cézanne loved (when Geffroy wrote something nice about him), then loathed (for reasons we don't know), hunkers spiderlike over a scattering of open books.
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People at these protests realize a scattering of fossil fuel projects all over the world could add up to big changes in the global temperature, especially in the very long term.
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Donald Trump's campaign once again drew derision from critics, this time for Donald Trump Jr.'s comparison of Syrian refugees to a bowl of skittles with a scattering of poisoned candies.
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"The evidence that you presented fell far short of that," Dr. Master, an associate professor of pathology and clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, said to a scattering of applause.
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In the downtown historic district, there is a scattering of high-end restaurants and upscale boutiques, but a few blocks over, the cityscape changes to boarded up buildings and fleabag motels.
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But probably half the audience simply ignored the command or kept their hands in their laps, turning what should have been a veritable galaxy of lights into a scattering of little glimmers.
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In the string bean mifen, the noodles weave around a fried egg and a scattering of ground Berkshire pork, stir-fried to a crackle with little rounds of sliced, pickled green beans.
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Online, the song met with a scattering of criticisms from Mr. Trump's supporters, who pointed out that those who normally denounce bullying were embracing derogatory and demeaning language about the future president.
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Ms. Delevingne's shirt, for example, had a scattering of stars inked on a shoulder, one red heart on the collar, with a lion on one sleeve and an elephant on the other.
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The plot relies not on the pursuit of ideals but on a scattering of objects, so stubbornly plain that they belong in a child's picture book: a rope, a ball, a cow.
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These included a scattering of government figures such as a senator's aide, a deputy assistant secretary of state, and Paul Winfree, an economist currently being considered for a seat on the Federal Reserve.
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But Scheel, who is a professor of marine biology at Alaska Pacific University, had already found a scattering of reports from prior studies that suggested "there was another story going on," he said.
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A scattering of emerging Asian countries make a notable appearance in the top-ten: growth in the region is buoyed by rising private consumption, and in particular a revitalised tourism sector in Laos.
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That may be deliberate, a textual match to Buddug James Jones's abstract set, whose only props are a few tables and a scattering of chairs, but it leaves us unsure of the stakes.
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A salad of chopped Napa cabbage, pickled watermelon and a scattering of cashews, called the Sweet & Sour, was enlivened by the earthy funk of a dressing made with kimchi (typically a Korean condiment).
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Then, dress it up with a scattering of chive blossoms (but pull the blossoms apart into tiny florets and use restraint — the pretty violet flowers are more powerfully oniony than you might imagine).
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The Underground Railroad, by contrast, was personal: a scattering of private citizens, acting on conscience, and connected for the most part only as the constellations are—from a great distance, by their light.
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Manila also contests China's effective control of the Scarborough Shoal, a scattering of rocks off the coast of the Philippines' Luzon island, seeking a ruling that would show it sits within the Philippines' EEZ.
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His home is surrounded by a beautiful, unforgiving landscape of red rock cliffs, a scattering of Navajo residences and, if you look closely, fencelines with KEEP OUT signs marking the numerous abandoned uranium sites.
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Given Castro was no longer in office and the mixed feelings abroad over his legacy, Tuesday's ceremony in Havana attracted only a scattering of world leaders, mainly from Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa.
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Madewell, Anthropologie and Free People tops (priced around $25-$35) as well as dresses from trendy brands ($45-65) and as well as a scattering of designer and less expensive items fill Gibb's digital closet.
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A bibb salad containing nothing more than lettuce, red onions, sun-dried tomatoes, Gorgonzola, and a scattering of pignoli in a citrus vinaigrette is good enough to become your go-to salad for, well, decades.
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In the past ten years, a stream of refugees have arrived from Sudan, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among other countries, and a scattering of African markets have popped up to serve them.
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There are more than 1 million Rohingya in Myanmar, but the government recognizes them neither as Burmese nor as a community of their own, maintaining instead that they're a scattering of illegal, opportunistic immigrants from Bangladesh.
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A sketch of a scattering of mussel shells done in walnut ink and gouache is fresh and free, as is the aforementioned large study for a commission, a landscape diptych titled "Not One But Two," 2015.
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The somewhat-austere arrangement was pleasant to gaze upon, finished with a scattering of fragrant basil leaves, though a few sweet cherry tomatoes would also be welcome, as would sliced peppers, or maybe some crumbled feta.
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Or it may be charred twice, pulled apart and tucked, still warm, into a whole-wheat roti made to order, with a final sluice of tomato and mint chutneys and a scattering of onions and cilantro.
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A scattering of security guards and cleaners working in the giant shopping mall Les Halles, which is connected to the station, said they had woken up earlier than usual to take trains in from the suburbs.
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During a Wednesday rally for the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Louisiana, Eddie Rispone, Trump interspersed his talk with a scattering of indignation at what he called House Democrats' "deranged, delusional and destructive and hyperpartisan" impeachment inquiry.
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A scattering of white pixels could be a ship, a pod of whales or even a range of high waves, says Desmond Power, head of remote sensing at C-CORE, which developed software to interpret satellite scans.
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In Jersey City, they bought a scattering of faded but roomy wood-framed rowhouses at prices that were less than half of what homes of similar size would cost in New York, The Times reported in 2017.
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He's also showed up in a scattering of other books over the years, and has become a major figure in the resistance against the Empire prior to A New Hope, leading a group of rebels called The Partisans.
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Within the past few years, changes have arrived in a scattering of substantial marquee retrospectives (of Armando Reverón, Lygia Clark, Walid Raad, Cao Fei) on West 53rd Street and at MoMA P.S. 1 in Long Island City, Queens.
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On the eve of what was ludicrously called Operation Iraqi Freedom, I was a teenager in Boise, Idaho, protesting in front of the state Capitol with the Idaho Green Party, a scattering of mostly Gen X neo-hippies.
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In each scene there is a scattering of symbols (police badges, guns, dollar signs, tear drops, question marks, X's), signs of nature and urban life — silhouettes of birds, cats, and fish — and one-syllable exclamations (No, Wow, Go, Ow).
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While at least four other senators and a scattering of House members and Congressional aides also adjusted their portfolios right before the crash, prosecutors will have to overcome special hurdles to even verify the facts about what really happened.
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Displayed alongside were a scattering of visual and auditory fragments that drew the viewer into the prisoners' cruel institutional world: a poem; a hostile blue light; scratchy sounds; and the picture of a Harlem school seen through a chain-link fence.
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Martin E. Dempsey, who had succeeded Admiral Mullen as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recommended that the United States maintain a military presence in Kabul, and at Bagram and a scattering of bases in the east and south.
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The hospital once used the area as a dumping ground, and to the side of the trail in the brambles is a scattering of ancient sinks, bottles and, yes, a few bedpans, though these bikers have been hauling them out.
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She trained hard over weekends and summers, partly for the extra income—some professional development (PD) fellowships offer generous stipends—but also to "build my own content knowledge, because I came into this with a scattering of science in different areas," she said.
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A similar piece in the next room relocates the black-and-silver expanse to the floor, with a scattering of red chopsticks and two small cylindrical heat chambers atop it, one with a burst of coral attached like a bird on a roost.
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Beyond a scattering of formal remarks, none of the story was told by Trump himself, who refused to hold a news conference and, by his advisers' own admission, revealed little of his thinking to top aides as he hopped from nation to nation.
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So it's no surprise that virtually every country in the region — China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines — lays at least partial claim to a scattering of dozens of rocks and reefs called the Spratly Islands that sit strategically in that area.
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They piled carrot coins in the middle and surrounded them with concentric circles of tangerines, bell pepper slices and cucumber sticks; dates went in one corner and apple chunks in another, with a scattering of walnuts on the opposite side of the plate.
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But by refusing to submit its wares to the refiner's fire of exegesis, or to make of the many ideas represented within its walls some new idea, useful for the future, the museum reduces history to a scattering of bright but unconstellated stars.
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What we're seeing in the iPhone 233 is a blended apparatus that happens to include three imaging sensors, three lenses, a scattering of motion sensors, an ISP, a machine learning-tuned chip and a CPU all working in concert to produce one image.
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Working as a contract actor for the Japanese studio Toho back in the 1950s, Nakajima picked up a scattering of bit parts—a fallen warrior in Seventh Samurai, a pilot in Eagle of the Pacific—before settling into the role that made his career.
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And though there was some black (most notably in a tailored jacket over flowing trousers with a tuxedo swish), the palette was equal parts red, white and navy with some celadon on top, as well as a sprinkling of stripes and a scattering of pansies.
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There is a way in which the whole of her poetry attains a potency that is dependent on, and yet in no way resembles, its many, frequently trivial parts — like a scattering of broken, brightly colored tiles suddenly snapping into focus as a mosaic.
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In "Garden View," for example, a red field touched with bits of orange is alive with lines and scribbles of dark green; contains less frequent purple marks; and has just four incidents of yellow, including a sphere that resembles the sun and a scattering of dots.
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The government is building a road that will cut a path of more than 50 miles through the Sierra Madre, from Ilagan City, the capital of Isabela Province, to Divilacan, a neighboring town, with plans to continue it into Palanan and a scattering of nearby villages.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Wedged between a plush new hotel, a series of motorways and the Olympic athletes' village in Rio de Janeiro, a scattering of newly-built whitewashed houses now mark the area that was once the thriving fishing community of Vila Autodromo.
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The warm waters of the Dahlak Archipelago — a scattering of more than 212 islands, only four of them inhabited, lying just north of Massawa — abound with jellyfish, barracuda, manta rays, parrotfish, red snappers, coral fish, puffer fish, clown fish and more than 220 types of corals.
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The mosaic morphed from a scattering of weird blobs (and, OK, a distinctly phallic shape) to a patchwork of everything Redditors loved: a pixelated rendition of the Mona Lisa, the logo for Stranger Things, the Swedish flag, and hundreds of other symbols, smashed into one great digital quilt.
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All eyes will be on Toronto and how it manages to compete with legacy taxi services and rival Uber in the market (as well as a scattering of much smaller startup services), as it's likely this is just the start of a broader international growth strategy to follow.
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The majority of the texts and videos on view are more documents than vestiges of past events, with the exception of a few items that were part of the performance, such as a scattering of Lesley Dill's flyers and brochures, which are both recordings and parts of her performances.
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The men and women who sign up overwhelmingly come from counties in the South and a scattering of communities at the gates of military bases like Colorado Springs, which sits next to Fort Carson and several Air Force installations, and where the tradition of military service is deeply ingrained.
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The men and women who sign up overwhelmingly come from counties in the South and a scattering of communities at the gates of military bases like Colorado Springs, which sits next to Fort Carson and several Air Force installations, and where the tradition of military service is deeply ingrained.
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That appeared to let loose hundreds of Egyptians — many of them young, working-class men — who participated in protests in a scattering of cities around the country, including in Tahrir Square and the poor neighborhood of Warraq Island in Cairo, as well as in Alexandria, Suez and El-Mahalla El-Kubra.
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That appeared to let loose hundreds of Egyptians — many of them young, working-class men — who participated in protests in a scattering of cities around the country, including in Tahrir Square and the poor neighborhood of Warraq Island in Cairo, as well as in Alexandria, Suez and El-Mahalla El-Kubra.
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MOSCOW — Russian Island, near the port city of Vladivostok in the far east, was a decaying former military base and home to a scattering of cattle when President Vladimir V. Putin suddenly envisioned it as a $22015 billion campus where he could welcome heads of state for an Asia-Pacific conference.
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" I did the other night, anyway, cooking blind in your name: broccoli florets tossed in soy sauce, balsamic vinegar and maple syrup, with a splash of neutral oil, then grilled soft and crunchy and served under a scattering of crushed red-pepper flakes and the furikake seasoning mix my kids call "shake.
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The user reviews you can find are decidedly polarized: There's a scattering of satisfied customers, but reviewers on Amazon, Facebook, and deals site Highya, for example, claim they never received their book at all, or were automatically signed up for a monthly subscription add-on and charged a recurring fee with no notice.
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In a heavily African-American neighborhood, 2000 families from a number of Hasidic sects based in Brooklyn and rarely seen here have bought a scattering of faded but roomy wood-frame rowhouses whose prices are less than half what homes of similar size would cost in New York — roughly $21990,21 compared with $2400,220.
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You can go to counterfeit "barbecue" places like Brother Jimmy's to swill bad punch from mason jars and pretend you're still a diehard Virginia Tech fan, or you can go to an apartment with a scattering of Big Ten alumni who labor under the continuing delusion that their conference plays interesting football.
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On a recent Saturday, a crowd of women and a scattering of men rifling through the racks included two shoppers who drove six and a half hours from their home in Charlotte, N.C. One of the women, Tracy Sanchez, said she discovered the store three years ago during a visit to Austin, Tex.
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Ms. Hepburn not only developed the building herself — adding details like a scattering of Greek letters on the building's base, and hiring the renowned sculptor Rene Paul Chambellan to add ornamental Art Deco-style carvings — but also ensured that upon its completion, the trustees who ran it would all be women, Ms. Scutts said.
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In addition to good performances all-around — and the brilliantly deadpanning Billy Eichner's standout role as the resident Responsible Adult — there is a scattering of fantastic cameos: Kate McKinnon as an eccentric, wealthy YA maven; Seth Rogen as a fellow Harvard alum nicknamed "Party Dog"; and The Mindy Project's Ike Barinholtz as a douchey colleague of Lisa's.
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Physically ultra-austere, all white walls with a fiercely edited selection of objects — photographs of clouds taken from airplane windows; a mural collaged from vintage postcards; a scattering of empty fruit skins, each stitched closed with needle and thread — it's an extended essay about travel, time passing, political passion and the ineffable daily beauty of the world.
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Clients order from a menu on the Buunch website that categorizes current selections by hue: choose "yellow/orange" for a composition made up entirely of fiery gloriosa, perhaps; click "purple/black" for an inky, arachnid-like spray of black millet, lady's slipper orchids and heuchera leaves; or select "rainbow" for a scattering of dyed baby's breath and dianthus.
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The eighth floor (which used to be the Café SFA, the dining equivalent of the store's shopping bags) has been transformed into Le Chalet, a bar modeled on an alpine lodge, with logs "procured from Europe" (as the fact sheet said) running the length of the ceiling, a stone wall and a scattering of mismatched faded floral couches.
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Already, a scattering of researchers, mostly medical anthropologists, have taken steps to follow communities where significant numbers of people are caught in the coverage gap, in order to gain the kinds of insights "you don't get from a single snapshot, a one-off survey," says Heide Castañeda, an associate professor in the anthropology department at the University of South Florida.
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So what we are creating are not—should not be—conscious, humanoid agents but an entirely new sort of entity, rather like oracles, with no conscience, no fear of death, no distracting loves and hates, no personality (but all sorts of foibles and quirks that would no doubt be identified as the "personality" of the system): boxes of truths (if we're lucky) almost certainly contaminated with a scattering of falsehoods.
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One of the best things on the menu is a brunch dish called Milk and Cereal, which reimagines not only that archetypal combination (it's a dome of luscious, tangy yogurt panna cotta so shiny that you can see the overhead lights reflected in its surface, ringed by supremes of pink-fleshed Cara Cara orange, wedges of kiwi, and a scattering of Corn Pops) but also the concept of brunch as a whole.
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