The Week contest: Big Message - August 5, 2011
A billionaire sheik in Abu Dhabi had workmen carve his name into 3,200-foot long letters in the sand that are now visible from space. What telling word or phrase would you like to see carved into the terrain of the U.S.?

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Results: A billionaire sheik in Abu Dhabi recently paid workmen to carve his name — Hamad — into 3,200-foot long letters in the sand that are now visible from space. We asked you for a telling word or phrase that should be carved in giant letters into the terrain of the U.S.
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Gerry Harvey, Sebastopol, CA
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