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Because of Turpan’s location in the Tarim Basin — at 79 m (260 ft) below sea level, this is the second-deepest continental basin in the world — it’s startling to discover here a sizeable city where houses are supplied with electricity and running water and shady trees line the streets.
When people speak of such pan-ethnic continental clans, they are merely regurgitating American definitions of race.
Before the advent of modern weaponry, one of the central tenets of the isolationist catechism was that America's status as a continental nation, flanked by two great oceans, gave us the luxury of doing without all the treaties and alliances that countries such as France or Great Britain had to bother with.
Geologists say that the concept of continental drift may need to be revised to account for some sudden reshufflings that took place in Earth's past.
As that exhibit shows, we estimate the monetized benefits of the Clear Skies Act in the continental United States will be $44 billion in 2010, including $43 billion in health benefits and $1 billion in recreational visibility benefits.