The men were picked up unharmed by the armed forces on Thursday, after being left in a forested area.

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Mississippi officials were reportedly considering breaching a side of the dam that abuts a forested area in order to relieve pressure.

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One of the most challenging trajectories, officials said, is the one to Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, a densly-forested area in the Amazon.

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Sukma police official Abishek Shandilya told the Press Trust of India news agency that security forces were searching for rebels in the forested area of Puarti village.

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La Repubblica newspaper reports that the search operation was made more complex by the fact that the victims ended up in a rocky and densely forested area beyond the ski run.

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Radagast did, in fact, live on the Western edge of Mirkwood, and could easily have encountered the Necromancer in his wanderings through the dark, forested area near the Tower of Gol Guldur.

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In work with Dani Rodrik of Harvard and Charles Sabel of Columbia University, Mr Hausmann argues that governments should emulate venture funds, backing new enterprises in the hope that one will make the leap into a more densely forested area.

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The victim, who is reported to be 39 years old, and her husband had been cycling from Orchha to Agra, to see the Taj Mahal, a distance of about 250km (155 miles), when they decided to camp for the night in a forested area.

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But she said aerial photographs from the 1940s would show that the area has become much more densely forested since World War II and is in need of some management.

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