Word: terrains
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...heli-ski cruises to the Chugach Mountains. Skiers spend a week flying from the back of a cruising vessel that serves as a floating inn. Across the border is the world's most extensive heli-ski operation, Canadian Mountain Holidays, www.canadianmountainholidays.com. It runs 12 remote lodges dotted around stunning terrain...
...destroyed roughly 70 percent of the city’s buildings. Allegations that the US used white phosphorous as a chemical weapon surfaced soon after. While officials initially denied that the shells were used in an illegal way (according to international law, white phosphorous can be used to illuminate terrain, but not against individuals), they were forced to modify their position a year later when a military magazine revealed that troops had used it to “flush out” insurgents. And, of course, the estimated death tolls were extraordinary: According to Iraqi NGOs and medical workers...
...like you better than Jesus.'" Vasella swims two or three times a week and likes to target shoot on the rare occasion when he can make it to the range. He enjoys walking his Rottweiler and bullterrier and riding his BMW and Harley-Davidson motorcycles over the hilly terrain around Zug. Vacations are precious--a chance to spend time with his wife, his 18-year-old daughter and his 14- and 10-year-old sons...
...harsh conditions. "Each barrel of oil produced tomorrow contains a higher degree of R&D than a barrel produced yesterday," Reiten, a former Norwegian Minister for Petroleum and Energy, told TIME a couple of days before his resignation. With StatoilHydro's decades of experience operating in the tricky terrain and climate off Norway's coast, the company could become the industry specialist at tackling the world's most difficult jobs...
...harsh mountainous terrain and the dispersal of the PKK makes it unlikely that the Turkish army will stage a major invasion this year and risk being caught in the mountains with winter fast approaching. Still, the mere threat of Turkish action has had an effect: The last stable part of Iraq no longer feels quite the safe haven it had become for thousands of refugees from the civil war in the rest of the country. "We fled from Baghdad, and now we are afraid of the Turks," said Mary Toma, a Christian refugee from the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad...