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In this nation's 200th winter, with its costly fuel combustion in furnaces and engines at an alarming pace, it may seem odd to suggest that the United States in not confronted with an energy shortage.

Gilbert Grosvenor, National Geographic

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This is a harsh, dry, bitter place, lonely as a dream. But I like it. I know that I could live here if I wanted to.

Edward Abbey, National Geographic

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Even a detailed representation of an object is not always a true characterization. Rivers and lakes can enlarge in size during spring flooding or shrink during a drought. The boundary of a city changes as the city grows. Users of GIS data must never forget that the data they collect and use will contain flaws and that the user has an ethical and legal responsibility to ensure that the data used for a particular purpose are appropriate for the task.

Maribeth H. Price, Mastering ArcGis Pro

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Things are seldom what they seem in this desert beneath the waves, a magical world of marine Houdinis where survival can hinge on a knack for deception.

Eugenie Clark, National Geographic

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Above all, the men warn, the boys must not divulge to women and children what they see and hear inside men's houses

Gillian Gillson, National Geographic

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In 2024, AB InBev made $60 billion and produced 15 billion gallons of beer. But today, for the first time, after thousands of years of uninterrupted success, the nearly trillion-dollar beer industry is in decline. In beer-drinking epicenters like Belgium and Australia, consumption has gone down by 50 percent in the past half century. Beer consumption in the United States is down 25 percent since 1980; in 2023, Americans bought less beer than in any other year this century

Adam Rogers, National Geographic

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Mercifully, my three-day trek over the 3,739-foot pass was made under blue skies, my only suffering a sunburn acquired as I crossed snowfields near the summit in shorts and a T-shirt. But imagine the scene as it was 85 years ago in winter: 70 feet of snow; minus 55-degree temperature; a bitter wind plus blinding fog and a blizzard.

Bill Richards, National Geographic

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We are very tired. We can't live like this much longer.

Rick Gore, National Geographic

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Sleek, powerful, and fearless, they rule the seas. With swift thrusts of their tails they leap from the water or chase down their prey. Once creatures of mystery seen as bloodthirsty man-eaters, killer whales have been found to be highly social, intelligent, and even gentle animals.

Erich Hoyt, National Geographic

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The Romans, who called the river Durius, weren't welcomed by the local population. In 133 B. C Numantia, north of modern Soria, withstood Rome's legions for many months. Rather than submit, legend holds, the people burned Numantia to the ground and committed mass suicide.

Marion Kaplan, National Geographic

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As recently as 15 years ago, Baghdad was patched with shantytowns. The sanitation facilities were antiquated, most of the roads unpaved. There was not a single first-class hotel in the city. Drained of its passions, Baghdad had only its name with which to evoke the sweetness of Arabian nights. Elsewhere in Iraq, oil was being drawn from in-ground reserves

William S. Ellis, National Geographic

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Soviet experts taught Mongolians to irrigate and strip-crop to preserve soils that in places is as rich as the Ukraine's.

Thomas B. Allen, National Geographic

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We don't accept any government money, and we don't want any. We ask only to be left alone.

Tom Porter, National Geographic

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I disagree with Mr. McDonald's statement that houses don't explode and have enough natural openings to keep pressure from building up rapidly. A sudden pressure differential between the inside and outside as small as one pound per square inch can apply 10,000 pounds of force to an eight-by-ten foot wall and to the few dozen nails that keep the wall up.

Marvin W. Shores, National Geographic

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On all the islands, from the Marquesas in the north to the Gambiers and the Australs in the South, from Mangareva in the east to Maupiti and Bora-Bora in the west, the blue-and-white flag of independence flew on rooftops and hillsides. Such brazen defiance was a far cry from the time, only 25 years ago, when the very idea of independence was illegal, and children had their knuckles tapped for daring to speak Tahitian

Peter Benchley, National Geographic

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It was stickier, it was slow, but this road worked.

Paul Theroux, National Geographic

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I'm invisible from the road. Australia's not a scary place, although it has its share of sordid critters.

Roff Martin Smith, National Geographic