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Tugwell had been shut off from the pleasures of the body as a child, when asthma and persistent illnesses kept him confined to bed in his rural and isolated hometown in far-western New York State.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Open all year; adults £7 per night, children under-11 £4, pre-erected tents an extra £18–£45 per night, 01481 832202Stoats Farm, with its 400-year-old farmhouse and collection of ramshackle outbuildings, is in a great location, nestled in a valley at the far-western tip of the Isle of Wight.
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He did not know that it was a mere fractional part of the great island of Ysabel, that was again one island of a thousand, many of them greater, that composed the Solomon Islands that men marked on charts as a group of specks in the vastitude of the far-western South Pacific.
Chapter 1 2010
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An activist in the far-western town of Zintan said pro-Gadhafi forces shelled the area late Saturday.
Rebels Control Misrata, But Advance Is on Hold Associated Press 2011
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An activist in the far-western town of Zintan said pro-Gadhafi forces shelled the area late Saturday.
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They also played a role in the violence in China's far-western region of Xinjiang last summer that left some 200 people dead, the report said, noting some online groups overseas had issued calls for independence for the traditionally Muslim area.
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The far-western region was the target of a massive campaign to “open up the wastelands.”
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Police on Tuesday nabbed Li Xinglin, the boss of the building materials factory in the far-western Xinjiang region who had fled Sunday after Chinese media reports exposed the plant's working conditions, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Mentally Ill Workers Rescued In China Associated Press 2010
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Chinese authorities claim arrested include ringleaders behind deadly attacks in far-western province ahead of Beijing Olympics
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Chinese security forces claim to have prevented a series of bombings in the far-western region of Xinjiang by a group they describe as "the gravest terrorist threat facing our nation."
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