Villagers bid for exclusion zone
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Residents in three villages apply for an injunction to prevent animal rights extremists entering the area.
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By Patty Fisher  PORTOLA VALLEY -- When you consider Bill and Jean Lane's lifetime of contributions to open-space preservation, their campaign to prevent two houses from being built in their Portola Valley neighborhood may seem like small potatoes.
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By Paul Burgarino, STAFF WRITER  SAN RAMON -- A boisterous group of residents packed into City Council chambers this week, concerned about the environmental and aesthetic effects of a proposed land-use plan just outside the city's northwest border.
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Residents of the remote mountain village in northern India recently conducted their 100th annual Sati Pradha Mela competition, in which the residents divide into two teams and conduct a crude version of dodgeball.
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Symbols of former mainlanders' past, the villages are being plowed under to accommodate urban growth.
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By Arlene Mart?nez, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Mar. 12--Property owners debating whether to keep their land undeveloped forever can reap better tax benefits if they do it this year.
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Fighting to survive without water or food since the tsunami, villagers on a remote southern archipelago forbidden to outsiders are starving and desperate for humanitarian
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Locals in the village of Xiantang have occupied their village hall for the past 14 weeks to protest what they say is official graft.
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By Stephen Wall, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Feb. 19--GRAND TERRACE -- Razor wire and wrought-iron fencing block entry  to the city's most visible landmark.   But one man hopes to unlock the gates and remove the "No Trespassing"  signs on Blue Mountain.
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Palestinians in a village at the centre of violent weekly protests against Israel's controversial West Bank barrier won a Supreme Court battle on Tuesday to have it rerouted.
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By Diana Graettinger, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Sep. 11--CALAIS -- An effort to develop a 640-acre parcel at Nash's Lake was scuttled last month, but city councilors discussed what to do with the property last week.
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Judges back Palestinian village's challenge over route of controversial West Bank barrier.
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By Amy Choate-Nielsen Deseret Morning News  PROVO -- Utah County officials may allow a gravel-pit company to keep digging in an area that isn't zoned for industrial use -- but not if the neighbors can help it.
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By Sara Semelka, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 11--Soon after residents of Arrow Rock began to network with other activists to try stopping a large pig farm planned two miles outside their historic town, they realized their situation was not unique.
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Not everyone is so desperate to be a part of the action on   Wisteria Lane, it seems.
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By Karen Lovett, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H.  Dec. 13--HOLLIS -- A community farm project hit a snag Monday as Hollis  selectmen rejected putting town money towards its development.
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By Phil Villarreal, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 22--Build it and they will come.   And you won't want them there, because they'll try to take it away.