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Ohio Escape. The Deer Creek Resort in Deer Creek State Park, less than 30 minutes from Columbus, has hiking and biking trails, fishing on Deer Creek Lake and a 350-acre golf course. With the Any Day Golf Package, get a nightly rate of $147, or book two nights and get a third night free (starting at $89) with the Spring Fling package. Both packages are available through May 22. 22300 State Park Road, Mt. Sterling, Ohio; 877-678-DEER...
...journey started out well enough. We left the Restrepo firebase the usual way: a series of sprints down an exposed trail interspersed with a quick breather behind a hesco barrier - something like a six-cubic foot sandbag - put up for that purpose. Then we hit a creek, and followed it down about 500 meters through holly, oak and cedar forest. The creek bed was solid rock in places, smoothed by water into a taffy ribbon of undulating striped granite. We passed stone houses tucked into the riverine curves, their stilt-supported balconies jutting into the void. We glimpsed flashes...
...Past governments have had their chances. Lured by good rail and river links, new industries poured into Canning Town in the mid-19th century. The Thames Ironworks Ship Building and Engineering Co. opened a 30-acre site at Bow Creek in 1846, bashing out ships for much of Europe. Eager for jobs, workers from all over the country poured in. The seasonal or casual work on offer meant few could afford comfortable places to live, though; landlords, well aware of the fact, threw up cheap housing without toilets, bathrooms and oftentimes drinking water. The over-crowding and disease appalled visitors...
...protest, disillusioned with both Republican and Democratic leaders, in 2007. The once flattened roadside grass, parched yellow by drought, now stands straight. The only movement is a hawk landing on a fence post, a horse pawing at the dust and a trio of baby goats playing in a dry creek...
...Guandique as a suspect. He was sentenced in Feb. 2002 to 10 years in prison for his attacks on the two joggers; today he is an inmate at a federal prison in California. Years later, noting that the pattern of assaults and the fact that the attacks in Rock Creek Park stopped after the Salvadoran was jailed, one police profiler told the Washington Post: "Guandique stands out like a neon sign...