Word: terrain
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Travel is much easier when the terrain is familiar, when the challenges--however difficult--are ones we understand...
...worst thing about media saturation is that it can impart so few actual facts. Polls show that most Americans made up their minds quickly that John and/or Patsy Ramsey had killed their daughter. The Ramseys haven't quite entered the harsh terrain of the American mind where O.J. Simpson burns, but they have tarried near the border. Last fall, after a grand jury finished a long investigation that failed to produce indictments, even the Governor of Colorado spent a few days publicly attacking the Ramseys for not cooperating enough with authorities...
Beautiful as Yellowstone National Park is, it's hard to imagine how Native Americans and early settlers ever survived in the rugged terrain around it. That's the mystery visitors are invited to solve during Rhodes Goes West, a week-long adventure held at the Lucius Burch Center for Western Tradition in Dubois, Wyo., the first in which the center and RHODES COLLEGE, in Memphis, Tenn., have been co-hosts...
...mechanical grasshoppers are ideal for the mission, capable of flitting over rolling jungles at more than 100 m.p.h. They are about the only conveyance possible; roads and airports are scarce, and river travel is slow. Helicopters can survey the rugged Andean terrain for coca and poppy fields, for crude drug-shipping airstrips hacked out of the vegetation and for the labs where the narcotraffickers produce illicit drugs. Armed and armored, the helicopters can protect unarmed crop-dusting planes as they spray lethal herbicides over thousands of acres of coca and poppy plants. And only helicopters can spot outlaw labs...
...their part, Bradley aides were saying last week that if they did well enough in New Hampshire to get some good free media, they could afford to challenge Gore in more places. A bad showing would force Bradley to focus more on New York and California, but the terrain would suddenly be much rougher. For one thing, a senior Bradley aide admits, "you are responding to 110 questions of 'Why are you in the race?' and 'Are you hurting the party...