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...cattle and mule deer, and aqueduct sides were deliberately made rough to lend footing for smaller animals that might climb down for a drink. Human visitors are not welcome, but the outstretched ribbon of water has already inspired one desert sportsman to use the canal as a water-ski...
...Ring of Fire, a broad circle that more or less coincides with the boundaries of the Pacific, where oceanic plates are diving under continental plates. Of particular concern to scientists are some of the peaks in the Cascades, the mountain range that includes Mount St. Helens. The Mammoth Lakes ski-resort area in California is another area of potential volcanic activity...
...hate these people." PRINCE CHARLES, grumbling to his sons at a press conference during the royal family's Swiss ski holiday. The prince, who will marry longtime mistress Camilla Parker Bowles this week, was unaware that his comments were picked up by a microphone
...over by the Americans in 1951, the hospital was regarded for years by military doctors as a quaint backwater, out of touch with both Pentagon politics and the cutting-edge research of combat medicine. Dorlac says it was "a 9-to-3 life," a place where staff took weekend ski trips in the Alps and enjoyed a few sleepy European years. Putnam, the Air Force trauma surgeon, says he dreaded his deployment here in 2002, thinking he had been handed a term in exile. "It felt like a small community hospital when I got here," he says. "They were focused...
...Iraqi face on the offensives is vital. It also helps avoid blunders. Often targeting information is slightly off, with troops raiding the wrong house. Local Iraqis are loath to point the Americans in the right direction. "They're not scared of Americans, but when an Iraqi in a ski mask confronts them they talk a lot more, and they're more likely to say, 'He's not here but lives across the road,'" says Task Force Pioneer's commander. During the raid on Tamimi's safehouse, the joint U.S.-Iraqi team hauled off Tamimi and another insurgent suspected of being...