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But to White House analysts thousands of miles away in Washington, this cradle of Chinese shipbuilding is part of a growing threat.

And two L.A. writers, who later chronicled their trek to the Mojave, headed out just to return the receiver to its cradle after learning the phone was off the hook.

One woman cradled her two-month-old child on her lap as the boat sped through brown currents.

The legislators especially threw San Antonio, a longtime Democratic stronghold that’s a cradle of Latino electoral power, into a political Cuisinart.

A soldier with a dusty uniform sat eating a burger and drinking red wine with his M-16 cradled on his lap.