That no contender hails from the country's southeast, historically the spawning ground of South Korean presidents, is also an advantage for Lee.

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Results vary based on a user's prowess with the tool, but the founder envisions the service as a fertile spawning ground for memes.

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That sale was the spawning ground for "rex disease" according to Richard Polsky, author of Boneheads, a new book about the fossil market.

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Steppenwolf, the spawning ground of the superstars John Malkovich, Joan Allen and its cofounder Gary Sinise, takes 39 interns a year, and they learn, hands-on, the workings of a professional theater.

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For the past 18 months, Mr O'Neal has led the firm's vast stockbroking arm, the traditional spawning-ground for its leaders.

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The bust, the result of a seven-year sting operation, happened in the Chesapeake Bay, the primary spawning and nursery ground for striped bass on the east coast.

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But every day, hundreds of ASF volunteers battle for the species on the ground, rebuilding and restoring river and fish-spawning habitat in the Atlantic Canada provinces and Maine.

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