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rivers

noun as in waterway

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Lines such as “Where nothing ever grows / No rain nor rivers flow” and “Well tonight, thank God it’s them instead of you” painted Ethiopia as helpless, barren and dependent on Western salvation.

“Playing Kansas City is awesome, especially late in the year,” said quarterback Philip Rivers, who had lots of memorable games there during his 17-year career, including his last game as a Charger.

“Why didn’t H7N9 end up being easily human-to-human transmissible and cause a pandemic?” asks Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

Many high-mountain rivers in Asia transport more sediment downstream compared to a few years ago.

A study with participation of the University of Potsdam demonstrates the interacting roles of glaciers, vegetation, precipitation, and slope in mobilizing sediment and controlling the current sediment transport in rivers.

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

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