• They were up on a picnic table at that park by the lake, by the edge of the lake, with part of a downed tree in the shallows half hidden by the bank.

    NEWYORKER: Good People

  • Detailed studies of the surface indicate that these were formed by a lake caused by the flow of underground water that periodically made its way to the bottom of the crater.

    FORBES: NASA Finds Remains Of Ancient Martian Lake

  • Giving the public a chance to watch many of the best golfers in history battle it out over Harbor Shores, an acclaimed new design on the shores of Lake Michigan by the best living golfer of all, Jack Nicklaus, could be just the shot in the arm the game needs.

    FORBES: Why Next Week's Senior PGA Championship Really Matters to Golf

  • Thus is the cinema reborn, the natural order restored and thus, in the first image of this new cinema, Cordelia (Molly Ringwald) dies, her body stretched on a boulder by the shores of Lake Geneva, as, with his back to her, Lear (Burgess Meredith) beholds the wonders of nature that have made it so.

    NEWYORKER: King Lear

  • When we rounded a bend near the top, the trees parted to frame a seemingly endless view of the lake, insulated by layers of hills.

    WSJ: Sailboat Safari on Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe: Coast With the Crocodiles

  • Over the stone wall we looked down at the stretch of sand by the lake.

    NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

  • As the plans for the High Dam were drawn up, worldwide attention focused on the many valuable and irreplaceable ancient monuments that would be destroyed by the waters of Lake Nasser.

    BBC: Abu Simbel: The great temple of Egypt

  • The downtown core got a boost with the 2012 opening of the City Creek Center, a shopping mall and mixed-use development of rentals and condos across the street from the Salt Lake Temple, financed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    BBC: Living in: Spiritual cities

  • The Lake District Osprey Project is managed by a partnership of the Forestry Commission, Lake District National Park Authority and the RSPB.

    BBC: Lake District ospreys: new pair at Bassenthwaite

  • "We have just completed the study, we confirm that the particulate matters, found by our expedition in the area of Lake Chebarkul indeed have meteorite nature, " Mr Grohovsky was quoted by Russia's Ria Novosti news agency as saying.

    BBC: Meteorite fragments found in Russia's Urals region

  • When Ted and Julia faced off with the IRS in Tax Court, the question was by how much the value of the lake house exceeded the demolition costs.

    FORBES: Fire Department Donation Nixed

  • The transformation driven by a data lake will implement the paradigm of operational intelligence, a more real-time, automated way of using both structured and unstructured data, both from real-time sources and historical repositories in a way that allows analysis to be as automated as possible.

    FORBES: Kill Your Data Warehouse

  • At Richard Nixon's first inauguration in 1969, the crowd was treated to "This is My Country" performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir of Salt Lake City, according to the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • It's 13, 000 square feet inside this big building, which makes it about one-fiftieth scale, and it's part of the city along the lake that is being recreated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in tiny little bits.

    NPR: Scale Model Aids Probe of Katrina Damage

  • This Georgian-style home, which is surrounded by 21 acres of land on the shores of Lake Michigan, was designed by renowned architect Benjamin Marshall , best known for his work on the Drake Hotel.

    FORBES

  • Mr. Beckstoffer and I had this conversation on the way to Steele Wines, one of the earliest wineries of modern Lake County, founded by Jed Steele in 1991.

    WSJ: Lake County, Napa's Neighbor, Gains Respect | On Wine

  • Biologists surmise that fish in the lake have high levels of organochlorines caused by chemicals accumulating in ponds and ditches on the land off the northeast part of the lake.

    CNN: Chemicals killing Florida birds, fish

  • The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Across all of Africa the impact of human activity is clear - whether in the newly irrigated areas created by the waters of the Nile, turning huge areas of the desert around Egypt's lake Nasser green, or the urban sprawl of Dakar, across the Cap Vert peninsula in Senegal.

    BBC: Atlas shows vanishing landscape

  • Nature is usually accentuated: the shimmering Lake Champlain, backdropped by a sawtooth silhouette of peaks, forms the western edge of Burlington.

    CNN: America's cool college towns

  • The hut stood on its own patch of land, which was walled off by stakes, stones brought from the shore of Lake Onega and piled up haphazardly, and rusty sheets of roof iron, probably carried here from some distant town by a gale.

    NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

  • This is going to be a battle for the heart and mind of the American worker, and the ammunition will be counted in the LED displays that clock the cars, slowly, one by one, off the end of the track at places like Lake Orion.

    BBC: US auto industry: The road to recovery?

  • With this project as a catalyst, the offshore wind industry in Lake Erie could generate 8, 000 jobs over the next 20 years, leading to 5, 000 MW of offshore wind energy in the lake by 2030.

    FORBES: 'Icebreaker': Offshore Wind Making Waves in Energy and Economic Development

  • Federal funding is available to State and eligible local and Tribal governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storms and flooding in Brookings, Lake, Moody, and Union Counties and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Signs South Dakota Disaster Declaration

  • Even if no signs of life are found in the lake, that could inform science's understanding of the limits by which life is bound.

    MSN: Mission to drill into buried Antarctic lake hits a snag

  • Sent home to her father, Tui then rides her horse down to an encampment of women who live by the lake, led by their mentor-cum-oracle called GJ (Holly Hunter).

    WSJ: Bates Motel on A&E; Top of the Lake on Sundance: Television Reviews by Nancy deWolf Smith

  • On October 20th the governor announced the purchase of 29 miles of shoreline on Moosehead Lake from Plum Creek, using money appropriated by the legislature.

    ECONOMIST: Forests

  • Part of the somewhat neglected southern stretch of Kafue National Park, though, is dominated by Lake Itezhi-Tezhi, an inland sea created by the dammed Kafue River that has given rise to superbly scenic, land- and water-based wildlife-watching experiences.

    BBC: Birding in Zambia��s wild

  • Ever since 1718, when Jean Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville, a French colonist, decided to build his settlement on a hurricane-prone patch of swampland surrounded by three huge pools of water (the Mississippi Delta, the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain), New Orleans has been living in nature's shadow.

    ECONOMIST: Hurricane Katrina

  • The Sports Complex is one of the four training sites run by the Olympic Regional Development Authority in New York's Adirondack Mountains and scattered around the town of Lake Placid.

    WSJ: Defrost Your Inner Olympian

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