This elaborate ornamentation of buildings is far more restrained and orderly in the style called Puuc, so named from a string of low hills extending up from western Campeche into the state of Yucatán.
"Five million pine trees, 50,000 olive trees, and 5,000 people," they tell you, and while the stat might need updating to account for expats, the island is basically a string of low hills covered in dense virgin forest with the occasional orchard or hamlet in between.
Activists were out in force today, though it appeared that serendipity, rather than coordination, was responsible for the string of pranks across Capitol Hill that coincided with the WikiLeaks release.
There were no similar words of praise for the president from Senate Democratic leaders, who appeared startled by Mr. Bush's recent string of victories on Capitol Hill after several weeks in which the president seemed disengaged from major policy issues before Congress.
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OFF the turnpike here in central Florida, hidden behind stucco walls, sits a sprawling Tuscan-style clubhouse on a hill overlooking a string of lakes, a golf course and green fields.
He dubbed it the "Beverly Hills," then developed a string of 21 hotels.
"This terrain has a lot of hills.
