Guinea-Bissau, on the swampy west African coast, cannot rival nearby countries in cocoa production or mining.
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When the explorers hit the swampy ridge where the east-flowing Chicago originates, they had to carry their canoes.
In "Glass Bottom Boat, " Portner wades steadily through swampy soundscapes, complete with croaking synthesizers and grunting bass lines.
The moss-covered cobblestone path, skull-lined wooden boardwalk and swampy forested landscape all lend an air of adventure to the game.
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Richard Fuld steered Lehman Brothers into a swampy lagoon of subprime debt.
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The jungle outpost of Lago Agrio is in northeastern Ecuador, where the elevation plummets from the serrated ridge of the Andes to the swampy lowlands of the Amazon Basin.
The Schreck family -- Scott, Carrie and their three young boys -- spent a night in the swampy wilderness Thursday in an ecosystem home to alligators, snakes and mosquitoes.
In 1989, after a 12-year, 4-billion-mile space journey, Voyager 2 flew over the cloudtops of the giant planet Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swampy areas, frozen lakes and craters.
The actors sport hand-sewn satin gowns and rugged leather coats against a realistic backdrop of swampy, methane stench-ridden Five Points and the clean-swept cream-colored sidewalks of Fifth Avenue on a 212, 500 square-foot studio lot.
These particular snakes are believed to have gotten their start in the Everglades through the well-intentioned, but ill-considered, action of a few Americans who thought they were doing the humane thing by turning their pet pythons loose in the swampy wilderness.
The ground was soft and swampy, fallen tree branches lay over the paths, I heard the obsessive self-hypnotizing cicadas, the gulp of the bullfrogs, and knew with an animal sense only lately developed in me that there were some four-footed creatures about.
One night in early autumn, with the swampy ground of the Nature Preserve papered with fallen leaves, I was hunkered down to examine a dead snake about a foot in length whose color I thought might in life have been green, when, as I stood, I felt something brush the top of my head.
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