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• “His son, Sarbjeet Singh, who sports a flat-topped hairdo says only two of his friends have gotten jobs outside of farming—and they had to leave the country to find them.”

  The Wall Street Journal: On Punjab's Farms, 'Everybody Has No Jobs'

• “It is here you will find the distinctive blue canopy of Neal's Yard Dairy with its flat-topped pyramids of Tymsboro cheese.”

  The Guardian: Observer Food Monthly Awards 2011 Best Newcomer: Maltby Street

• “All classics with the astounding performance by Boris Karloff in the 1931 Frankenstein showing why the flat-topped creature is one of cinema's defining images.”

  The Guardian: Halloween horrors: new DVD and Blu-ray releases

• “Therefore, we—as the children of monkeys who fetishized symmetry and evenness—inherited a desire to live in a perfectly round world instead of a flat-topped oblate spheroid; to want planets that traveled in perfectly round orbits instead of weird egg-shaped ellipses and an Earth that looked like an inkblot with the equator as the fold.”

  Fictionaut: X, Chapter 3: Morowitz

• “Standout scene: Muntz's pack of canines pursues Carl, who drags his airborne house via a hose, Russell, Kevin and Dug in a harrowing chase through the nooks and crannies of the flat-topped tepui mountains.”

  Non-explosive entertainment can be just as enjoyable

• “We trundle south beyond the Tropic of Capricorn, south past running ostriches, baboons and goshawks, down past flat-topped acacias and euphorbias with stems vivid as trails of fireworks.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I

• “It's formed by walls at least 50 yards high that look like flat-topped hills, tapering from roughly 65 yards thick at their base to 45 yards at their tops, which are covered in vegetation and trees.”

  The Huffington Post: Toxic Sludge Could Spill Again, Hungary Government Warns

• “Heavy, solid, hard-cast and flat-topped, especially for the .44.”

  If confronted with a Grizzly Bear and my only means of defense is a .44 magnum, what ammunition load would be best loaded in my

• “Notium, also known as Notion, was a town located on a flat-topped cliff high above the Aegean Sea ~13. 5 km northwest of Ephesus.”

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• “Reefs are often categorized into more specific categories, such as patch reefs (small patches of reef that tend to grow within lagoonal back-reef areas), platform or bank reefs (isolated, flat-topped reefs that are larger than patch reefs and usually grow on mid-shelf regions), and ribbon reefs (long sinuous reefs that parallel the shelf break).”

  Coral reef

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