"He jumped in right beside her, " he said, and the girl managed to get both hands on Rocky's leash.
He'd dribble a special, durable soccer ball, designed to give kids in poor countries something that they could play with for a long time, something that wouldn't break on rocky playgrounds or fields with sharp, thorny brush.
Female sturgeon don't become sexually mature until their 20s and spawn about every four years, so the spawning season, in which they surface from the depths to lay their eggs on rocky shores, is an extremely important time for the species.
You can use your life jacket as a cushion on the rocky ground.
Despite the chilly weather, packs of usually clothed men and women line up on the rocky ledges to launch themselves into the water.
It is also a place revered by Aborigines, who conducted spiritual ceremonies on the rocky outcrop until the early 19th Century.
It had a vital strategic placement on a rocky bluff over the St Lawrence River, at the furthest point that ocean-going ships could venture from the Atlantic.
In another rather unconventional setting, Villa Rockledge, a 5, 500 square foot mansion constructed in 1918 sits perched on a rocky ledge overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
At al-Jalazun refugee camp on a rocky hillside near Ramallah in the West Bank, 86-year-old Ahmed Safi lives with his family in a small, overcrowded house.
Badr had arranged for us to meet a local fisherman, Abdul Salim, who was sitting with his men on a rocky beach as we drifted to shore.
The restaurant, tucked in a cove on the rocky coast of northeast Spain, maintained a three-star Michelin rating for more than a decade and was ranked the world's best place to eat five years running by Restaurant magazine.
The 24-paged editorial, shot by photographer Steven Meisel, captures model Kristen McMenamy, covered in black grease, writhing about in feather dresses on a rocky, post-apocalyptic-looking beach, evoking the real-life images of oil-coated birds gasping for breath that dominated coverage of the spill.
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On Monday, Rocky Mountain National Park enacted a ban on all campfires because of the threat of wildfires in Colorado.
Things are more rocky on the software front -- it's clearly a work in progress, at least when it comes to the user experience.
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Each submission to the Journal was accompanied by a single-spaced letter of two or three pages, bringing me up to date on his travels, his retreat in the Rocky Mountains, his thoughts on events outside the realm of his columns.
Macau sits on a horn of rocky coastline, where the Pearl River washes into the South China Sea.
Greece and Turkey nearly went to war over one rocky outcrop on Mr Simitis's first day in office, in January 1996.
The Saruni Samburu Lodge is so perfectly designed that its permanent tents virtually meld into the rocky bluff on which it is located.
About 250km (150 miles) to the north, in neighbouring Shanxi province, in Pingdong, a much poorer village, 250 people live along battered dirt roads, and try to grow wheat, corn, soyabeans and winter melon on the dry, rocky mountain land.
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The art may appear on any writing surface even the rocky walls of cliffs but it is especially common on letters, scrolls, works of literature and fan coverings.
What helps is the vast network of producers, fishermen and farmers the Rocky Mountaineer relies on.
Video from CNN affiliate WTOM showed the boat perched on the waterway's rocky shore.
Croats are fiercely proud of their wine, a cherished product of the sunny, rocky Croatian islands on the aquamarine Adriatic sea.
There are few visible signs of the financial crunch on campus, where the Rocky Mountains loom over the pink sandstone buildings and manicured lawns.
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But he lives like a king in his 9, 000-square-foot keep on the edge of the Rocky Mountains--one of hundreds of Americans who have bought or built a castle.
Nomad, a robotic rover built by the Carnegie-Mellon Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, spent 45 days in the Atacama in 1997, in order to evaluate its ability to negotiate the kinds of rocky terrain found on the moon and Mars.
Sealing the nail on Greene's coffin was her rocky business relationship with EMC Chief Executive Joe Tucci, as the two never saw eye to eye on how VMware should be run.
The village of Olymbos looks precarious at best, perched high on a mountaintop above the plunging rocky shoreline of the Aegean Sea.
Wafted eastwards by strong winds, in 2002 the beastie made its debut in northern Alberta and further south in the national parks of Jasper, Banff and Kananaskis on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
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