He filmed the beads of sweat provoked by the sun, probably even her pores although that smooth, uniform skin seemed to have no pores, no folds or bumps, and not a single stretch mark marred her buttocks.

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But plenty of other groups have left their mark: behind one stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard all the gardens are planted with bonsai trees, the work of a colony of Japanese who settled there after internment during the second world war.

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The city has agreed to turn a 10-block stretch of Broadway into a four-day party to mark Super Bowl XLVIII, which will be played in 2014 at MetLife Stadium in the nearby Meadowlands.

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That's four players hitting the 50 mark in one season, not long after a 24-year stretch (1966 to 1989) in which exactly one player, George Foster of the 1977 Cincinnati Reds, managed to do it.

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During one four-play stretch, he hit tight end Chris Gragg in stride 20 yards up the right hash mark.

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While the Costa Smeralda in the northeast gets the celebrity attention, the mile-long stretch of sand at Chia at the opposite end of Sardinia is a jaw-dropper of a beach without the mark-up.

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