Word: plateaus
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...process of learning, for both individuals and societies, usually comes in fits and starts. Throughout history bursts of knowledge--the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration, the Industrial Revolution--have created a succession of new plateaus for human achievement. Medicine is now experiencing just such a surge of enlightenment and advance, producing a parade of breakthroughs so flabbergasting that they are routinely described as "revolutionary" or even, as Yale's Dr. Sherwin Nuland observes in this issue's opening piece, by the decidedly unscientific encomium of "miracle...
...most of these motel dwellers along the dry plateaus between the Dead Mountains and the Black Mountains, political violence is the last thing on their mind. The FBI discovered that when it arrested two drifters who had passed through Kingman and also Perry, Oklahoma, where McVeigh was arrested. Journalists converged on Kingman only to find that the two men spent weeks watching television, rarely emerging from their motel rooms except to buy beer and food. "I'm a drunk," explained a baffled Robert Jacks on Nightline, after the fbi finally released him. "I just pick up work -- or anything...
Over the years, bridge players in the ACBL, accumulate master points by winning tournaments. Eventually, they reach various plateaus and become life masters, bronze life master, silver life masters...
...Montana and Idaho, wolf populations have been kept low by disease, illegal poisonings and lethal encounters with cars. But Yellowstone could be a promised land. The 930,000-hectare (2.3 million-acre) park is surrounded by millions of hectares of wilderness, a panoramic spread of high plateaus, broad river valleys and forests that teem with elk and other wolf food. Abundant grizzly bears keep backpackers to a minimum. Hunters are allowed to move through the wilderness areas adjoining the park only during five weeks each fall, and killing a wolf could bring high fines and imprisonment...
...convinced BLM that with foundation and public funds he could establish a self-sustaining sanctuary within three years. IRAM's first project was a 12,600-acre sanctuary in the Black Hills of South Dakota that opened last year. Tourists pay $15 to view 300 mustangs running on high plateaus of ponderosa pine. The project makes Hyde smile. "The horses are finally getting over their depression," he says. "They got so bored in the feedlots that they didn't know how to run anymore...