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Perched on a hilltop in southwestern Virginia, the Oaks garnered its name from the seven historic oak trees, now more than 300 years old, that surround the Queen Anne Victorian house, built for a bride in 1889. Its gardens unfold along Christiansburg's Main Street, once part of the Wilderness Road forged by Daniel Boone, today close to the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway and a rails-to-trails bicycle path...
...clear fall Sunday this week, thousands of worshippers converged on a hilltop in Belmont, Mass. to dedicate the 100th temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
...clear, blue-golden - such a sweet, frictionless light that from a hilltop I see the Catskills across the Hudson, miles to the west. In a wetland by the road, a great blue heron prospects for frogs, standing poised in the early evening clarity, utterly still... then strikes with a lightning flash of beak. At my approach, the heron rouses itself in a cumbersome fluster, and rises in the air and flaps off in prehistoric, slow-motion grace, topping the red pines...
...John Robinson was nearly invisible. No one knew what he did for a living. He worked mostly at home, tapping away at a computer, speaking vaguely about some businesses he ran and occasionally disappearing in his pickup truck. The lot around the gray mobile home he kept on a hilltop in the east Kansas town of Olathe is well trimmed, with a weathered figurine of the Virgin Mary set on the lawn and a grill on the back porch. Most of his neighbors couldn't recall ever seeing him, but a 13-year-old girl walking near his home last...
...which he died surprised nearly everyone, including Israeli intelligence. In northern Virginia, the reports of Assad's death came into CIA headquarters early Saturday morning. The agency's operatives in Damascus were reporting that top Syrian and Baath Party officials were spotted rushing to the presidential palace on a hilltop overlooking the capital city. By early morning Washington time, officials at the U.S. embassy in Damascus, who were working their own sources, had what they believed was solid confirmation that Assad was dead. President Clinton got word as he sat on the dais at Carleton College in Minneapolis, Minn., preparing...