1. The hardscrabble city is set among hills crowded with active and abandoned coal mines amid a grim industrial landscape.
2. Many have returned to poverty in the hardscrabble neighborhoods that climb the hills around Copiapo, the Atacama region's gritty capital.
3. Former Taliban walk the streets of this hardscrabble town, hiding only behind a change of clothes.
4. Gansu boatmen keep a hardscrabble tradition alive as they ferry tourists across the Yellow River.
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