• Ms. JENNIFER HUDSON (Singer): (Singing) Hold me like the river of Jordan and I will then say to thee, you are my friend.

    NPR: Jackson Remembered During Emotional Service

  • Even though some of the anti-Belo NGOs, like the Xingu River Movement, are indeed local, they may face the problem of being too local.

    FORBES: NGOs Look to Sue Brazil Over Amazon Dam

  • Mercury poisoning can be found almost anywhere, including places considered remote, like the Amazon River basin in Brazil.

    CNN: Tomorrow Today

  • The money has funded scores of community groups as well as high profile projects like the Peace Bridge across the River Foyle and the planned Conflict Resolution Centre at the site of the former Maze prison.

    BBC: Peter Robinson welcomes EU peace fund indications

  • And the grand plan of shoehorning Ally McCoist and Kenny McDowall into office looks like going down the river without a paddle.

    BBC: Chick Young's view

  • McPhee spent months trying to understand the centuries of engineering prowess that have gone into trying to control the Mississippi, especially the creation of structures much in the news today, like Old River Control and the Morganza Floodway, which was opened over the weekend to allow floodwaters to course down through the Atchafalaya basin.

    FORBES: Is This The Year The Atchafalaya River 'Captures' The Mississippi?

  • For an hour the kob course under the plane, almost like a river, flowing across the broken soil and around the trees.

    ECONOMIST: South Sudan

  • The moon waxed over the Crescent City like a sliver over the Mississippi River, a cradle in the sky over the cradle of jazz.

    NPR: Danza Quartet Welcomes 2009, Bayou Style

  • The markets that they generate are more like a turbulent river or the weather system, subject to constant storms and seizures of all sizes.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Covering some 400 square miles of open countryside, the trial sites are much larger than the ten-by-ten kilometre box squares used in the RBCT, and have been carefully chosen to take advantage of natural barriers to the movement of badgers like the M5 and M50 motorways and the river severn.

    BBC: Badgers back in the firing line

  • This was the prevailing design in the mid-1800s, when wealthy Hudson River families like the Roosevelts and the Gildersleeves adapted traditional Dutch iceboats into lightning-quick sporting machines that raced--and often beat--the fastest steam locomotives plying the Hudson's banks.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The framework on which this is all hung is a historical look at the expansion of surfing from its roots in Hawaii, and exactly how and why it spread to certain sometimes bizarre places, always eliciting passion along the way, like river surfing from dam generated waves in Germany to Cuba, Japan and the Middle East.

    FORBES: How Surfing Explains The World?

  • Chevron pumps out some 180, 000 barrels every day from 100-year-old fields like Kern River in the San Joaquin Valley.

    FORBES: Chevron: The World's Biggest Gusher

  • Shortly after the first wave of morning attacks, more car bombs exploded in and around Baghdad, triggering panic among residents and measures like the closure of several bridges spanning the Tigris River.

    WSJ: Wave of Deadly Attacks Hits Baghdad

  • Persistence is critical, said Pillay and Warren, who emphasize showing up at the same place, at the same times, with the same Christian message, like Cabral with his cross at the Fall River intersection.

    NPR: Southern Baptists Expand North With Church Plants

  • At the sites in the northern part of the state, players walk along high bluffs overlooking the Tennessee River or on courses that look like the Scottish Highlands.

    BBC: An epic Southern fried golf road trip

  • Asana, daughter of Ya Namina, my grandfather's senior wife: a magnificent hauteur flowed like river water from the mother's veins through the daughter's.

    NPR: 'Ancestor Stones:' Life and War in Sierra Leone

  • In states like Massachusetts, old Portuguese language cities like Fall River have seen the Brazilian community numbers dwindle to maybe a couple of hundred.

    FORBES: Brazilians Leaving The U.S. Behind

  • "It looked like a river flowing down the road, " she said.

    CNN: Arkansas AG to investigate oil pipeline leak

  • The economy is like a river.

    FORBES: Our Denial of Nature Undermines the Economic Recovery

  • On the Hudson River on Thursday, the impact was like "being inside a car that crashes, " passenger Alberto Panero said.

    CNN: Previous jet ditchings yielded survival lessons

  • Run-of-the-river dams like Baglihar consume nothing, since water must flow to run turbines.

    ECONOMIST: South Asia��s water

  • At the Fort Conde Inn across the river they sounded like "planes above you dropping bombs, " general manager Alan Waugh told WALA Wednesday.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • We stole down some of the San Juan's narrowest veins, where the river felt more like a flooded forest and palm fronds hung low over their reflections.

    WSJ: Nicaragua's San Juan River by Boat

  • The family lives a life of rural self-sufficiency that makes the River Cottage look like a microprocessor plant, raising pigs, keeping bees and growing tomatoes, corn, figs, beans, apples, medlars and pears.

    BBC: Discovering wine in Georgia

  • How can this be worse than sleeping on top of her parents' graves, saying Kaddish so many times the words ran together like nonsense, worse than sitting for days by the Pripiat River, watching for a little sock or Sophie's blue petticoat, sitting in the mud in only a nightgown and blanket, until the weather changed and Mariam came with the flier for America?

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Away'

  • Beautiful Lumangwe, a wide wall of water that thunders into the Kalungwishi River filling the air with fine mist, looks like Victoria Falls in miniature.

    BBC: Escaping modern life in Zambia��s north

  • The street provided easy access to the St Lawrence River, and throughout the 18th Century prominent denizens like de Chomedy lived and worked there, building mercantile outposts and grand private residences near the port.

    BBC: A new look for Old Montreal

  • Like many boys, I went to the river to fish, though I had no experience fishing at all.

    NPR: Eggers Blends Fact, Fiction of Sudanese 'Lost Boys'

  • Tidal currents exceed 12 knots at times, creating tidal rapids with massive whirlpools that can make the sea look more like a raging river.

    FORBES: Canadian Pipeline Wars

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