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

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

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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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