One example is a new health center being constructed in the U.S. flatlands of Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Below you'll see the white salt flatlands being crisscrossed--if it's a windy day--by landsailers, zipping around on what look like windsurfers on wheels.

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We might be stuck in the flatlands for a long while.

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But after I switched to a two-car train in the hamlet of Plattling, muddy flatlands gave way to woodsy white hills, factory chimneys to clock towers.

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Wedged on a narrow spit of land near the marshy flatlands of the Rio de la Plata, the abandoned docklands had no streets, a few gutted buildings and "chest-high grass, " Austin Hearst, an early investor, remembers.

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Developed by the University of Minnesota using funding from DARPA, the Recon Scout resembles your average barbell weight, but when you're not workin' those triceps, this little fellow can be heaved across flatlands, over fences, and into brick walls in order to secure a location and start feeding back video of its surroundings.

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