The posts hit by NATO on Saturday are built on the Salala mountain, part of a chain of low-lying rugged mountains that divide Pakistan from Afghanistan.

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Low cloud sweeps across the mountains followed by squally rain.

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The thrust of the narrative, aided with illustrations including Mr Thompson's pleasant photographs, hangs on a series of introductory and diverting potted histories of the Lake poets, writers, artists, climbers and charlatans who gave a remarkable profile to this relatively low-lying group of mountains in England's north-west.

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Schering and Merck have defended the drugs by pointing to the mountains of evidence that support the idea that lowering low-density lipoprotein, commonly known as LDL or "bad cholesterol, " prevents heart attacks.

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Parts of it remain pleasantly rural: low, undulating and verdant, as North Carolina rolls down from the mountains to the sea.

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All three mountains offer floodlit night skiing on a portion of their runs which, after dark, resemble low-flying spaceships suspended high above the chocolate-orange glow of metro Vancouver.

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Here mountains give way to an expanse of deserted white sand that runs hundreds of metres from shore at low tide, with the warm water waist-deep for hundred of metres more.

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"Whether you're talking about wanting to go to the ocean or the mountains, those are kinds of activities that can be done in a state park at a relatively low cost, " he said.

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