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Uruzgan nestles in a pristine valley ringed by snow-capped peaks that form a natural fortress in the mountains north of Kandahar. Its orchards climb peacefully to the snowline, a spectacle of pastoral tranquility that belies the village's emergence as the site of the largest U.S. ground operation of the Afghan conflict - and the most tragic...
Chores done, 11 of us clamber into our basket, and we lift off from the southern tip of the valley. We rise silently over one of Australia's most prosperous and lovely regions, just as the first rays of dawn begin to spread over the landscape. Then the romance starts. Viticulture in the Hunter Valley began in the early 1820s but only in the 1960s did the wine industry of the lower valley begin to flourish. By the '80s it had superseded coal mining as the centerpiece of the local economy. These days about 160 grape growers and 43 wineries...
...burned off the early morning chill. We sail over Cessnock, an old mining town laid out like a chessboard, as a 75-carriage coal train snakes through the countryside. Another blast and we lift to 300 m. From that height we can see a 40-km stretch of the valley?a lush strip running east to west. To the north flows the mighty Hunter River and on the southwestern horizon rises the magnificent Brokenback Range. Tawny mineral-rich hills act as a watershed, enriching the region's fertile soil. It is the soil, in conjunction with the climate...
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Summers also mentioned what is becoming an increasingly prevalent theme in his speeches—his vision for Boston as a new Silicon Valley for biomedical research. Summers said he sees Harvard as the driving force behind this development, mirroring the role Stanford played in the California boom...