1.   Others are more systematic and take regular walks through the palm plantations, peering into brush piles and plucking blood pythons from hiding places.

2.   Police in a northern town shot dead one man after hundreds of villagers attacked the office of a state-owned palm plantation, authorities said Thursday.

3.   All of the victims were workers from a nearby palm plantation.

4.   Looting at a state-owned palm plantation as well as at private companies in northern and western Sumatra has yet to stop, a report said Tuesday.

5.   Mines, palm plantations and foreign-controlled industries have closed down.

6.   The spreading palm plantations also are blamed for water loss and soil erosion.

7.   Witnesses and rescue workers were quoted by Indonesian news media as saying the plane exploded in mid-air and broke apart before it crashed into a palm plantation.

8.   But many palm plantations were destroyed by Iranian shelling and Iranian soldiers used thousands of palm trunks to build shelters during their occupation of parts of southern Iraq.