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Yucca Flats, Malone thought, certainly deserved its name. It was about as flat as land could get, and it contained millions upon millions of useless yuccas. Perhaps they were good for something, Malone thought, but they weren't good for _him_.
The place might, of course, have been called Cactus Flats, but the cacti were neither as big nor as impressive as the yuccas.