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KOROLYOV, Russia — After 257 days in a locked, windowless steel capsule, researchers on a mock trip to Mars ventured from their cramped quarters in heavy space suits Monday, trudging into a sand-covered room to plant flags on a simulated Red Planet.

257-Day Mock Mars Mission Simulates Landing On Red Planet AP 2011

Many riders found themselves struggling up the sand-covered run-up, especially through a large crowd of loud supporters.

Atlantic Conference faces deep sand while North Carolina State strengthens lead 2010

Most of the remains — essentially sand-covered bones divided among 36 urns — weren't identified.

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KOROLYOV, Russia — After 257 days in a locked, windowless steel capsule, researchers on a mock trip to Mars ventured from their cramped quarters in heavy space suits Monday, trudging into a sand-covered room to plant flags on a simulated Red Planet.

257-Day Mock Mars Mission Simulates Landing On Red Planet AP 2011

Now the complex of concrete buildings and sand-covered bunkers masquerading as suspiciously identical dunes was nominally—and barely—watched over by a small unit of infinitely bored and demoralized American soldiers, who had been promised they would go home weeks ago and who saw our visit as a rare opportunity to bum some cigarettes and call their families on my satellite phone.

Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

Memories of childhood flash before me in frozen pictures, and the sand-covered street becomes a whiteboard of images.

In the Shadow of Freedom Tchicaya Missamou 2010

Crystal chandeliers are lit above them, a host of marble columns stand around them, and portraits of Habsburg royalty stare out at these uppity horses clippety clopping on a sand-covered palace floor.

Waltzing Fever Is Afoot Patti McCracken 2010

Now the complex of concrete buildings and sand-covered bunkers masquerading as suspiciously identical dunes was nominally—and barely—watched over by a small unit of infinitely bored and demoralized American soldiers, who had been promised they would go home weeks ago and who saw our visit as a rare opportunity to bum some cigarettes and call their families on my satellite phone.

Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

The man folded up his wooden chair and took the girl's little sand-covered hand, led her out over the bridge back to a nearby parking lot where his '77 Buick waited to be driven home somewhere.

Vacation 2010

Ruinous farming and river-pumping have turned what was once green cropland into an arid, sand-covered “dreamscape of steppes and deserts.”

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