"Get your kitsch on Route 66" might be a better slogan for Arizona's scrubby stretch of Mother Road.

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Fire is the cheapest and fastest way to clear the ground of misshaped and scrubby trees, together with undergrowth.

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Second, you perpetuate the view of the cerrado as the expendable, scrubby neighbour of the far more glamorous Amazon rainforest.

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If left to itself, Ascension would probably decline into dull, scrubby simplicity.

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For years, crowds eager to enter the nexus of American democracy have had to wait in long lines snaking around the building's scrubby gardens.

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He is 65 and has 16 months left on his contract before driving his half-ton pickup truck off into the sunset on his arid, scrubby ranch in southern Texas.

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The National Trust has published a list of the UK's top 10 "silly walks" to such colourfully-named locations as Scrubby Bottoms, Pembrokeshire, Booby's Bay, Cornwall and Windy Gap in Surrey.

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