Word: canyoneering
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...Chief took us down across the canyon to talk to some of the would-be-crossers. I expected them to shy away from our van and the two men in it with green uniforms, shiny black boots and guns. Some did. Others came right up to the door...
Smith then organized a search with two of her young children and a 20-year- old niece. In remote Lopez Canyon, 18 miles north of Los Angeles, her daughter spotted a white heap that turned out to be Uribe -- robbed, raped and beaten to death. Smith told police of her discovery and was arrested for the murder...
...been able to agree on a plan to renegotiate the debt. The Hunts wanted Placid to hold off on making any bank payments so that the company could go ahead with aggressive off-shore drilling projects. The brothers were especially keen to develop a tract called Green Canyon, off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. But the bankers insisted that Placid should accelerate, not halt, its debt payments...
...American reaction at home is either one of unity against the so-called terrorist threat or just "so what...no big deal, they're not here yet, let's go to the Grand Canyon instead". But we fewer-than-usual Americans in Europe have a different perspective. It comes from trying to adapt not only to a European lifestyle, but to their mindset as well...
Earthquakes are so common in California that many of them are hardly noticed. But this month five sizable quakes in Southern and Central California have shaken residents, demolished mobile homes and split open at least one road, creating a whole new canyon while startled vacationers watched. Last week's tremor near Bishop registered 6.1 on the Richter scale, a good rumble, and caused unusual concern because it followed so closely after the others...