Word: plateauing
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...front of Quonset huts. Yet photographs of all these are retained and displayed prominently in the new buildings, whose functions differ from the originals only in scope. The main business of Los Alamos is what it has been since the town popped up on a plateau just east of the continental divide 42 years ago: the design and development of nuclear weapons. These functions are performed in a surrounding of caves, canyons, mesas, mountains and sky so beautiful that all one has to do is look up from his work for a moment, and the day has changed...
...drawing board for almost 20 years. The dam will flood an area the size of Singapore, bleed one river almost dry and swell another, force the relocation of 6,200 people, and affect as many as another 100,000 living in and around the country's central Nakai Plateau. A joint project between the Laos government and a consortium of international companies led by the France's state-owned Electricit? de France, the dam will have a generation capacity of 1,070 MW of electricity when completed in 2009, 95% of which will be sold to Thailand...
...Villagers in Keng Gnao, a small community on Nakai Plateau, are counting on it. They have been told for years that their thatched huts would one day lie beneath an enormous lake and that they would have to be relocated. A long time ago, the idea might have upset them. But in the intervening years, they have watched loggers decimate the plateau's lush forests, where villagers collected and hunted much of their food. Poverty on the plateau is endemic. Children often die in infancy. Crops routinely fail. Hunger is a fact of life. A few kilometers from Keng Gnao...
...only thing that has changed in 16 years. At 226 victories, Stone is the winningest coach in Harvard history and the one of only three to reach the 200-win plateau in Division I history...
...runs "snow-holing" holidays?where your bed is literally gouged out of the permafrost. Groups are kept to a maximum of eight people and, after a compulsory day of winter-skills training, embark upon a two-day expedition over the Cairngorm and Cairn Lochan mountains to the Ben Macdui plateau, where your accommodation is constructed...