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“This is our land, so we are not selling it, and everybody is saying that,” said Sven Jensen, walking to Nuuk’s harbor in search of day work.
Emergency workers dug through deep mud in search of victims Friday after a landslide from an extinct volcano crashed into a popular campsite in northern New Zealand.
From Barron's
"They had little money, and so in 2009 they travelled to the UK in search of work," Aspden added.
From BBC
To answer her mother's question, Mosaku decided to Google the cast of her favourite film in search of some much-needed insight into how to break it into the acting industry.
From BBC
Rising temperatures are also forcing plants and animals to move higher up mountain slopes in search of cooler conditions.
From Science Daily
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