Word: hilltop
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Those with the opportunity and the presence of mind, like Henao, rushed desperately onto rooftops, or clambered into the branches of nearby trees. Some ran for the city's highest ground, its hilltop cemetery, or found other spots above the flood crest. Survivors later testified that the first wave of mud to hit the town was ice cold, like the mountain snows that spawned it. As it rolled onward, the mud carried along more and more of the inner fire of Nevado del Ruiz, until finally the cascade was smoking...
...mosque in the center of Sa-Nur was built for Jordanian soldiers, a reminder of the contested history of this tiny piece of land. Israel conquered the hilltop in 1967, and now the mosque is a synagogue. Until recently, though, it had few worshippers. Sa-Nur saw its population plummet in the first years of the intifadeh because of its isolated position near the Palestinian town of Nablus, a terrorist hotbed. A little more than a year ago, it was home to just nine families and two young bachelors. But since Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced plans to evacuate...
...knitted yarmulke down to his eyes. Yair eats a slice of barbecued lamb with his hands. Elisha points through the silent darkness to the lights of nearby Israeli settlements and tells the story of King David's meeting with his wife Avigail in the valley below. The hilltop, settled by a few youngsters in defiance of the Israeli government, bears the name of this woman of the Old Testament...
...Arafat may have played over the years in both facilitating and/or sabotaging negotiations has come to an end, forcing all sides to reappraise their next move. For the Israelis, there are immediate security questions such as where Arafat will be buried - he wants to be interred on the Jerusalem hilltop known by Jews as the Temple Mount and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, but Israel is determined to prevent such a symbolic reaffirmation of Palestinian nationalist claims on the holiest piece of real estate in the Holy City; instead, they'll hope to seem him buried in Gaza. Israeli...
...Takubo spent a lot of time on the shrine's grounds, climbing up and down the complex's infamously forbidding 785 steps, and watching the pilgrims who would come by in their hundreds every day, from all over Japan, to pray to the gods believed to inhabit the holy hilltop...