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By the following spring, the first wildflowers had sprung up, and the native plants were digging deep root systems.

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A whole new section of KK Park has sprung up in seven months.

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Outside Termini railway station a small tent camp has sprung up with a sign declaring its address as "Piazza Gaza".

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Up and down the territory, hundreds of new Israeli military checkpoints have sprung up, often accompanied by sudden road closures.

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As a pre-teen, freshly sprung from an orthodontist’s chair, my idea of heaven was a Wendy’s fry — natural-cut, skins freckled along the edges, salt like tiny rhinestones clinging to grease — dunked into a chocolate Frosty.

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