On a recent weekday, Patrick Piccirillo, 56, leaned on the counter of his dimly lighted, sparsely stocked newsstand, which he has operated for six years outside Brooklyn Criminal Court.
For years, Mr. Saifi has operated with impunity in a sparsely populated zone stretching from Mauritania to Chad, recruiting militants and buying weapons for his comrades in Algeria.
Mr. Castano has also expanded his forces' reach into sparsely populated regions where they had only occasionally operated in the past, notably Putumayo Province along the Ecuadorian border.
Usually, SBSs deploy sparsely with each other to avoid mutual interference and are operated in a time-slotted manner.
Olivier Gravelle, 29, operating in sparsely furnished offices in Paris, recently set up the French unit of Wideyes.com, an online job search company much like Monster.com in the United States.
Its noise would be much less of a nuisance; indeed, proponents suggest it might operate all through the night.A sparsely populated setting would also limit the effects of the air pollution that comes from planes landing, taxiing and taking off, and from the road traffic serving the airport.
But Saturday's attack shows that extremists can still operate with impunity in Baluchistan, Pakistan's largest but most sparsely populated province.
However, despite this, the BLACK nodes operate at as high as 70% of Txmax for the sparsely node deployment (Figure 7a).
Bleak volunteered to accompany the 20-man patrol of an I&R Platoon on this mission, which was to send them to a sparsely vegetated feature called Hill 499, where Chinese forces were known to be operating.
