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Caption: WAY TO BLOW Colors show how winds connected Bouvet Island Bouvet Island (bvā`), uninhabited volcanic island, c.58 sq mi (150 sq km), S Atlantic Ocean, about 1,600 mi (2,576 km) SW of the Cape of Good Hope.  to neighboring neigh·bor  
n.
1. One who lives near or next to another.

2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another.

3. A fellow human.

4. Used as a form of familiar address.

v.
 locations from Feb. 1 to 10 in 2000. Winds easily give hitchhiking Hitchhiking (also known as lifting, thumbing, hitching, autostop or thumbing up a ride) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking people (usually strangers) for a ride in their automobile to travel a distance that may either be a short or long distance.  plant snippets a lift from the island to areas in the brightest peach zone but are less and less likely to carry plant material to the areas with progressively darker colors. Thus, distant islands may share many species.
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Title Annotation:This Week
Publication:Science News
Date:May 22, 2004
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