• Where Arcadia and Elysium lay, there was a desolate waste, pocked with craters.

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  • Squeezing past the stiff bulk of Eric, the stuffed bison, in the hall, she would creep down the bullet-pocked stairs and step out into Albert Street.

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  • Stretching east from the pass is a long valley pocked with ultramarine lakes, watched over by sheer walls of striated granite that are striped with the wispy white of flowing waterfalls.

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  • On Tuesday nights the place to be is Bullet's Sports Bar in the Seventh Ward, a neighborhood of single-story "shotgun shacks" and small businesses pocked with half-burnt houses and empty lots.

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  • Caroline pulls on the loose straps of her backpack, a filched Pinkie Pie, its tail braided, its eyes pocked by a pen point, now zipped into one of the many compartments.

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  • On Saturday, Chad's troops, fighting inside the boulder-pocked mountains of Mali's north, reportedly caught up with terror fugitive Mokhtar Belmokhtar, killing the bearded, one-eyed mastermind of January's hostage raid on an Algerian natural-gas plant.

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  • If, after several hours, this hope doesn't return, he will pause to gather himself, and then he and his cello will coax Albinoni's Adagio out of the firebombed husk of Dresden and into the mortar-pocked, sniper-infested streets of Sarajevo.

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  • Though quieter now, the rocket-pocked cliff-side homes and hidden caves of South Waziristan were once used by al Qaeda and the Taliban as a staging ground for attacks against Pakistani officials, American soldiers in neighboring Afghanistan and adversaries across the globe.

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  • The four decades following America's first Gilded Age in the 1870s were pocked with dislocation: multiple financial panics, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the fall of the Manchu dynasty, the onset of the Mexican Revolution and Otto von Bismarck's German makeover.

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