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...knows the route and can read the mountain's moods. With that checklist complete, all you need to do is choose your summit. Here are four of our regional favorites: Gunung Bromo, Indonesia, 2,392 m It may be an easy 30-minute hike from car park to crater rim, but Bromo's frequent rumbles and gaseous emissions serve to remind visitors not to take this giant too lightly. Time your trip to Java's famed volcano for the dry season (June through October), and clear skies should afford stunning views of the surrounding Tengger Caldera. Sunrise watchers should start...
That's true, at least, for Meridiani Planum, the plain near the Martian equator, where Opportunity set down. By pure good fortune, the rover landed inside a small crater gouged by an ancient meteorite. This natural excavation exposed ancient layers of crust laid down by a shallow lake that had periodically dried up and refilled. Spirit landed half a world away in giant Gusev Crater, on what looked like a lake bed but turned out to be lava. Frustrated, mission scientists ordered the rover to move on. "We were already at 80 days, but we decided to put the pedal...
...blast hurled concrete debris, bitumen wrenched from the road and shrapnel from what appeared to be artillery shells over a radius of three city blocks. It gouged a 2-m-deep, 8-m-wide crater into the street; the shock wave shattered windows streets away, including all those on the al-Hamra hotel's east side...
...Kerry was smart enough to know something else. "You're the only Democrat who's been elected twice since F.D.R.," he told the ex-President. No one had been so tested as Clinton's team when it came to digging themselves out of a crater, and Kerry had already recruited some of the most combat-hardened of them out of retirement--former White House press secretaries Joe Lockhart and Mike McCurry, ex-Clinton aides Joel Johnson and Doug Sosnik, and Hillary's old chief of staff Howard Wolfson. Almost from the moment they arrived, Kerry's operation showed...
Firms with links to the Sudanese regime could see their stock prices crater as divestment pressure mounts, Gaffney said...