So Gabet and colleagues created a computer model of a flat field populated by randomly distributed gophers behaving like the gophers in the iron-pellet study.
Although no one disputes the lengthening of the tail (clearly, more obscure products are being made available for purchase every day), the tail is likely to be extremely flat and populated by titles that are mostly a diversion for consumers whose appetite for true blockbusters continues to grow.
The mountains as God made them have become that enemy, and the false argument that sparsely populated coalfields need more flat land for development is the rationale that is being used to justify MTR.
Walk through the Elthorne Park neighbourhood in north London and you see densely populated estates where most of the flats lack a balcony, let alone a garden, and communal areas are covered in Tarmac.
The study area consists of a wide flat band (under sea level in some places) populated by migrants belonging to several ethnic groups from the surrounding regions living in poor houses with walls made of bamboo frames filled with either mud or cement and covered with corrugated iron roofs.
His best-known subject is his simplest: a flat, light-saturated horizontal landscape populated by a herd of cows.
The Terrai area is predominantly flat, well-accessible and densely populated.
It's a flat, arid locale, punctuated by sand dunes and populated by only villagers, camel wallas and shepherds with their flocks of sheep and goats.
The coastline is fringed by rugged mountains and forests populated by bears, cougars and wolves, so if the surf goes flat there are plenty of adventures waiting.
Drop by on a weekend, Galdi assured me, and the place is densely populated with lovers of four-hundred-and-six-thread-count Italian linens (flat sheet, $133.50, down from $245) black-walnut highboy chests ($4,700, down from $5,835), tessellated terra-cotta-colored soap dishes ($52, down from $75), and weatherproof marble Buddhas ($595; who could mark down Buddha and expect to be enlightened?).
