Word: droving
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...discovery was largely an accident, one that never would have happened if not for El Nino. Back in 1997, the Pacific Ocean disturbance that affects much of the world's weather triggered punishing rains in Ethiopia. The deluges not only exposed buried fossils but also drove away the people of Herto and their livestock, which would have trampled the fragile bones. When White and the others happened to drive by the village, they noticed a fossil hippo skull poking out of the ancient sand. On closer examination, the skull bore marks indicating that the animal had been gashed with...
...that sense, "The Hulk" was made in the shade. Tempers frayed as the budget soared to $150 million, and the director's painful attention to detail and insistence on retakes drove his cast nuts. (Not for nothing do actors call him Angst Lee.) "It wasn't a set full of conflict," Bana says carefully. "It was a set full of tension. I think Ang boiled over only once, and I boiled over only once." Looking back, he says, making the movie "was satisfying the way running a marathon is satisfying. At the end, the person feels pretty good...
...country more intimately during his year off in Spain and the Dominican Republic. That year, he also made a brief stop in Morocco, driving one day to the edge of the desert and vowing to return—which he did this past summer, this time with Sam. They drove to the spot where the road ended and rode on camels through the desert...
Touched by Adamouski’s honesty and determination, the cab driver drove him all the way to school...
...Tikrit it would be better if we said you were Russian," said my interpreter Marwan as we drove north. Saddam's home town is still a hostile place for a lone Brit or American, he felt. I wasn't really listening. My attention was drawn to the surface-to-air missiles, apparently intact, still lying by the aside of the road six weeks after the war - a disquieting symbol of U.S. inactivity and the continuing lack of stability...