Word: valleys
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...understanding his leadership approach. And it is the way to understand how he rules the ranch too. The stuff has to be cleared to get the broader view, cleared so that you can see from the land on top of his property down into the greener valley. We stop at an overlook he has just thinned out so that he can show Laura. Each night they take a walk before sunset; now they will have a clean lookout down to the Rainey Creek, more than 100 ft. below. Bush has torched his conifer hackings all over the ranch, leaving black...
Like California's Silicon Valley and Massachusetts' Route 128, Montgomery County, Md., has been transformed in the past decade from a sleepy suburb into a bustling scientific Mecca. The 15-mile stretch of Interstate 270 that runs from Bethesda to Gaithersburg now houses one of the world's largest and smartest collections of genomic firms. The chief draw is the NIH, which dispenses $14 billion a year in research grants. But there are other attractions--proximity to Johns Hopkins, a start-up-friendly local government, an abundance of office space; and most of all, a critical mass of like-minded...
...Well, the attacks in the Presevo Valley area are a campaign issue for all the parties in the Yugoslav election. Milosevic's party is using them to propagate conspiracy theories, saying it's another American plot to dismember Serbia. For President Kostunica's coalition, this has been a chance to prove that they can handle this sort of crisis in a different way than the former regime, and actually cooperate with the international community to solve the problem. The problem is that the guerrillas have no interest in giving up. And of course the wider Kosovo Albanian population, even...
Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death...
...irritating theatrics. And while these qualities are as conspicuous as ever in Holy Wood (the final stage of the Antichrist Superstar/Mechanical Animals triptych), the quality of the music mostly compensates for its unabashed gloom. Despite its tired references to death, hell and maggots, "In the Shadow of the Valley of Death" is a haunting and effective acoustic number, and dirge-like opener "Godeatgod" shows surprising restraint. It's obvious that great care was taken in constructing the songs on Holy Wood; guitars chugging over suggestive ambience often peel away to reveal acoustic strumming, fragile piano and yes, pulsing synths. Manson...