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This area contains a series of long, shallow grooves set within a landscape of deep valleys, scattered impact craters, and surface textures that point to a distant ice age on the Red Planet.

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They argue that transforming food systems requires a new vision that elevates local food producers, preserves cultural food traditions, promotes gender equity, and ensures that economic benefits flow to communities rather than to distant shareholders.

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For many Palauans, talk of high-level geopolitical struggle feels distant, yet its ripples are everywhere.

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Lionsgate’s “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” came in a distant second at the domestic box office with $9.1 million.

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Investors are less keen on spending heavily now in the hope that in the distant future we get properly intelligent machines able to outperform humans.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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