Trials showed very poor performance of such types of mine-sweep on compacted soil or scrubby land.

With her husband, Mrs. Srei On tries to grow rice and mangos on a plot of scrubby land in the central province of Kompong Cham, where the Khmer Rouge have stationed thousands of fighters and where the two Chinese peacekeepers were killed.

The funniest things were the shoats, a mixture of sheep and goat, grazing on the scrubby volcanic land.

Our stay coincides with the carob and almond harvests, but nothing else seems to be extracted from the scrubby land around.

The throng spread across the scrubby land around a small health clinic.

She drove a couple of miles west to a low-rise residential complex built on a square of scrubby land trapped between two four-lane roads.

Rolling through the vacant, scrubby beachfront land to the south, he envisioned a different kind of neighborhood rising there - "a place the average workingman could afford," Mr. McDonough said.

The raw scrubby land out back would be that way.

It beat the top of the sea into a mist, it pounded the trees, it churned and slopped a stretch of scrubby land near the sea into a mudbath.

The rain pelted and danced on the corrugated iron roof of the small shack that stood in the middle of this patch of scrubby land.