• Migrant workers are everywhere: girls from Anhui serve in Urumqi restaurants, and tough, tiny Hunanese put up pylons high in mountain passes.

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  • Occasionally, deep piles of trash were piled high in mountain switchbacks.

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  • They were found dead Saturday after being buried in snow on a high mountain pass in Colorado's White River National Forest, officials from the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office said.

    CNN: Authorities identify Colorado avalanche victims

  • Targets in New York's letter-writing campaign include the high-profile 23andMe, in Mountain View, Calif, (run by the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin) and Navigenics, of Redwood Shores, Calif.

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  • But until the snow melts in the high mountain passes, India will not know if this is a lasting trend.

    ECONOMIST: Cricketing euphoria confronts political reality

  • The daughter of a paper company chief executive, Prevot grew up in York, Pennsylvania and went to high school at Burke Mountain Academy, a skiing-focused boarding school in East Burke, Vermont.

    FORBES: Top U.S. Colleges

  • To the west are the saw-edges of glacier-encrusted rock and ice, serrated by more than 30 jagged peaks heavy with snow, the highest of which is 6, 768m-high Huascaran, the tallest mountain in the tropics.

    BBC: Trekking Peru��s Santa Cruz trail

  • Holloway, 18, disappeared while visiting Aruba with about 100 classmates celebrating their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, and was last seen leaving the nightclub with the three youths.

    CNN: Prosecutor: Crime reporter's info may help Holloway case

  • Ian Galanis, a broker with Mountain High Real Estate Advisors in Salt Lake City, represented Territory and said increased liquidity is finally seeping back into the Las Vegas market.

    WSJ: Deal of the Week: Bet on Vegas-Area Retail

  • Its first grainy, wide-angle images showed its own left rear wheel parked on the surface of Gale Crater near the equator of Mars, close to the foot of a three-mile-high mountain it aims to explore in months to come.

    WSJ: NASA's Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars

  • Playing in 102 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity at Stone Mountain, Agassi made light of the conditions to dispatch the Spaniard -- a two-time French Open champion -- in straight sets.

    CNN: Golden moments: Agassi and Graf relive Olympic glory

  • When Weiszbrod and I get back to the ranch at 10 AM on a glorious fall morning in this picture-perfect place, I have a greedy realization: it would be possible here at High Lonesome to do the Rocky Mountain Grand Slam in one day.

    FORBES: Hat Trick at High Lonesome

  • In an Op-Ed in the New York Times, Cohen makes the argument that the melting of the ice is leading to more moisture in the atmosphere and more snowfall in Siberia, just north of extremely high mountain ranges such as the Himilayas.

    FORBES: Is Global Warming Making It Snow?

  • Set 5, 700 feet high in New Zealand's Southern Alps, the two-bedroom mountain cabin is accessible only by helicopter.

    FORBES: Lifestyle Feature

  • Holloway, an 18-year-old graduate of Mountain Brook High School near Birmingham, Alabama, disappeared in May 2005 while on a class trip to Aruba.

    CNN: Students try to crack famous cold cases

  • Minc said he wants to stop construction of homes in high-risk areas, such as river banks or steep mountain slopes -- a practice that he said was encouraged by previous governments.

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  • He talks lyrically of hill farmers on high mountain pastures, whose grazing herds prevent avalanches and provide jobs in remote villages.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • That seems logical, but, in reality, your best customers can lead you up the high-margin mountain.

    FORBES: Digital rules: The High-Margin Danger Zone

  • Greece has been in recession for five years, crippled by a debt mountain, high unemployment and labour unrest.

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  • Mountain rescuers warned walkers to think twice before heading up high peaks in bad weather after two separate incidents on Corn Du in the Brecon Beacons at the weekend.

    BBC: Wales snow: New snow warning after disruption

  • In 1990, for example, the first such group decided it needed a variety of corn with high yields but low stature, since locally available varieties tended to fall over in mountain winds.

    ECONOMIST: Research from the ground up

  • Backtrack and drive up Steens Loop Road to the mountain's eastern rim, which drops off in a mile-high rock cliff.

    FORBES: A Desert Where?

  • Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to clear a bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.

    BBC: New age of exploration in the hunt for extreme life

  • The toughest mountain on the list, the fang-like 1, 224m-high Federation Peak in Southwest National Park, requires the blind courage (but not the equipment) of a mountaineer, with the summit reached on an exposed near-vertical rock climb.

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  • Set deep in the Purcell Mountain range and reaching jagged and sharp into the sky, 2, 651m-high Mount Nimbus is the kind of wild and extraordinary place that few casual mountaineers can usually reach.

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