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...does look like a pachyderm dipping its trunk in the river, and to add a pagoda or two to the more prominent hilltops and lakes. Millions of visitors - principally domestic groups - head to the city and its surrounds every year, dutifully tramping from one designated site to another, cruising downstream to Yangshuo past Fairy Maiden Peak, Wave Stone View and Chicken Cage Hill, filling up suitcases with osmanthus-flavored cakes and memory cards with souvenir photos...
...Force (BSF), half of whom guard the frontier with Bangladesh. At the biggest gateway between Assam and Bangladesh, a junction of the Brahmaputra River near a market town called Dhubri, the BSF's Water Wing patrols 24 hours a day by speedboat. Ferries carry laborers from the remote villages downstream to jobs in Dhubri, Guwahati or Siliguri, and each one is stopped by BSF guards, who check passengers' documents to prevent Bangladeshis from slipping through. "After sunset we don't permit boats to ply," says A.K. Hemram, commander of the battalion there. "Any boat will be considered as influx...
...live along Montana's Yellowstone River are downstream from a simmering caldera, a geologic hot spot that has become especially active recently. Indeed, Yellowstone National Park contains the floor of a gigantic volcanic cauldron, one that rises and sinks with the forces that lie beneath - hence the picturesque geysers and steam holes. But a wave of recent earthquake activity is raising fears that have their origins 642,000 years ago, when a Yellowstone "supervolcano" exploded so violently that it created the caldera itself. Today, such an explosion - 1,000 times more powerful than the explosion of Mount St. Helens...
...river. A hosanna of bubbles rose around them. On and on the angelic voices sang, on and on the mist and water around them churned. Their bodies moved languorously together in the water, and all around the sun sparkled and there was the smell of honeysuckle. As they drifted downstream, past banks of wild roses whose branches reached out of the water, showers of rose petals fell about them and settled crown-like in Roxanna’s golden hair. In the gentle arms of the housemaid, Frederick experienced release after release. “I am free...
...finance has reshaped the British capital, take a trip to Greenwich--about 3 1/2 miles (6 km) downstream from Tower Bridge--home to the Royal Observatory, which dates back to 1675. It's the birthplace of Greenwich Mean Time, but for years the area was as well known for its mean streets: 19 Greenwich neighborhoods rank among the most deprived in England...