Once the procession of commuter pickups with their flaring headlights had passed, everything was silent and dark the groomed shops on the main street, the courthouse, the gas stations trimmed with hedges, the Gothic prep school behind the lake.

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The Ganges was blocked by a mammoth landslide last month, and a big lake formed behind the landfall.

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In 1987 it threatened to cut the flow off, and in 1990 it did so, for a month, to allow the lake behind its giant Ataturk Dam to fill up.

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Daniel Kraker of member station KNAU takes us to the shores of Lake Powell, the gigantic reservoir behind the Glen Canyon Dam.

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Duffy's path to his Chicago River-view office started behind the bar at Chuck's in Lake Geneva, Wis.

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As Mitt Romney wound up his speech at Avon Lake High School, word went round the media pack, penned in behind barriers from the crowd of bellowing supporters, that his campaign was cancelling any more events on Monday, suspending for Tuesday as well.

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If flannel is to be found in Kirkland, just across Lake Washington, adjacent to the Microsoft headquarters, it is likely to be packed away behind a Tesla or luxury hybrid automobile.

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