Word: cliff
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...saves golden eagle from poacher's trap. Eagle saves boy from nasty fall off towering cliff. Evil poacher kidnaps boy, tries to force him to tell where eagle aerie is. Rescue team flies in and saves everybody, including a zoo's worth of exotic creatures the villain has also captured...
...been called the First Lady of Rock, but Lynn Hill wows the crowd with graceful moves instead of music. In fact, her best licks are performed dangling from a 70-ft. sheer limestone cliff. Hill, 29, is the world's best woman rock climber. Her vertical inclination dates back to her California childhood, when she displayed an early enthusiasm for climbing walls, telephone poles and trees. Before long she graduated to scaling cliffs in the Sierra Nevadas. "I think I'm a really fortunate person, because what I'm doing for a career is also my passion," says...
...goal spoiled Brown Coach Cliff Stevenson's bid for his 300th career victory in his final game...
When aspiring movie mogul Giancarlo Parretti visited the White House Oval Office two weeks ago, he boasted to President Bush that he would soon complete the cliff-hanging takeover of MGM/UA Communications and would make "the lion roar as it did in its heyday." This time he may not eat his words. After months of legal and financial maneuvers, Parretti's Pathe Communications is expected this week to wrap up the $1.3 billion acquisition of MGM/UA from financier Kirk Kerkorian...
...days later, a French archaeologist guides Auel through Laugerie Haute, a vast excavation site under a cliff. She asks for details about how hearths were spaced, seeking hints on how families may have guarded their privacy. "This will be Jondalar's apartment building," she says. At Font-de-Gaume, a grotto of magnificent prehistoric artwork, she examines a painting of a wolf: "I have a feeling this will be Ayla's cave." It fits, since the adventurer travels with a wolf, albeit one she has trained to behave uncannily like a golden retriever...