Just how much more is a question with ramifications well beyond those empty tracts of Iberia.
For some community leaders, Arverne by the Sea's steady progress is a welcome improvement for the area, which is lined with empty tracts.
On residential streets, houses displayed new roofs, renovated porches, bigger windows, fancier doors; in outlying neighborhoods, empty tracts of land blossomed with medical buildings, supermarkets, family restaurants.
In recent months, Mr. Lichtenstein has been trying to sell artists, community leaders and public officials on his idea of raising up a cultural district on those empty tracts and in the surrounding area.
On the contrary, they point out, their framework is weighted towards only countries' populated parts, so that countries with large, empty tracts, such as Russia, are not unfairly rewarded.
(During dry periods, I would soon discover, an opaque layer of dust and car exhaust hangs over the city bowl.) As we drove west along the Darulaman Road, past the former Soviet Embassy — an area of heavy fighting in 1993 and 1994 between Massoud and rival warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar — I looked over empty tracts and the hulks of shelled, bullet-pocked buildings.
Empty tracts might be abandoned due to dangerous levels of toxicity.
The necropsy, performed Sunday, turned up kidney stones, liver parasites, stomach ulcers and an empty gastrointestinal tract, adding up to a "chronically ill animal," Ms. Durham said.
Inclusion of the enhancing levels of AS in the diet increased empty gastrointestinal tract weight (L, P = 0.012).
