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Flanked with patches of forest leading up into the foothills of the Himalayas, the flat plain stretches right across to the Bay of Bengal 1,600 km (1,000 miles) away, but some areas are kept as nature reserves for the country’s wildlife, notably its tigers, leopards, and elephants.
Five of the others have stretches of A or T between 15 and 26 bases, which are not unusual (Accession R52548 (3') and R52604 (5') = Superoxide dismutase 1 = spot 1c1,21 in Fig.
But did you notice the long stretches of tin-ear dialogue for Mary Kay Place; the amateurish quality of the setups (often you can see a microphone dipping and swaying at the top of the screen); and, last but not least, the 10th-grade misogyny?
The central region of Honshu (Japan’s main island), Chubu stretches northeast from Kansai across the Hida, Kiso, and Akaishi mountains — known collectively as the Japan Alps — to the plains of the north coast and the Sea of Japan.
Archaeologists today are working to uncover Hong Kong’s past, which stretches back thousands of years.