's Diablo Canyon nuclear plant and Southern California Edison's San Onofre plant, both of which are on the Pacific Ocean, near fault zones.
ChevronTexaco drilled the deepest well ever last November, in the Gulf of Mexico's Alaminos Canyon area.
If you're playing Phuket's Blue Canyon--good luck on number 14--the drop is worse than any devaluation ever was.
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When the singer Luther Vandross was charged with manslaughter after his best friend died in a car accident with Vandross driving, L. Peter Parcher, "lawyer to the stars, " devised a slick defense: An olive tree had dropped its slippery nuggets precisely where the crash occurred on Hollywood's Laurel Canyon Boulevard.
Even so, he said, he's not ready to forsake his beloved canyon country's stunning scenery and outdoorsy lifestyle.
The mineral composition of each of the Canyon's 15 dominant layers influences the stone's color, type and texture a variety that is all the more evident on the side-canyon detours.
Waimea Canyon State Park has lookout points over Kaua'i's stunning Na Pali cliffs, as well as numerous hiking trails through and around the canyon, a wilderness lover's delight.
The piece is essentially a 95-minute piano concerto inspired by Messiaen's visit to Bryce Canyon and Zion Park in 1972.
Lack of sediment has meant that local fish species have become extinct and the Grand Canyon's beaches have been severely eroded.
After a steep climb, the walk skirts the canyon's rim before entering the Garden of Eden: a lush pocket of cycads around a natural pool.
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The Grand Canyon's saving grace is its free shuttle bus service.
We wound past cactuses and scrambled up rock terraces as we made our way toward the narrow ravine of Elves Chasm, one of the Grand Canyon's most picturesque side canyons.
It doesn't even need to know what kind of signal it's looking at, and it can get its position in places there's no GPS to work from, whether it's in an urban canyon or the natural kind.
He was "on the road" again, this time to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's isolated cabin in Bixby Canyon, Calif.
Canyon Ranch's Kelly, for one, thinks wellness lifestyle has only started its move from the fringe to the mainstream.
"We did extensive research in how people integrate lifestyle, community, wellness into their lives, " says Kevin Kelly, Canyon Ranch's president.
One of Canyon Ranch's answers to this problem has been to hire Richard Carmona, who was America's surgeon-general until last summer.
The resort's oaks, alders, and Douglas firs, hung with rags of morning fog, surrounded us amphitheater style in Meadowood's tucked-away pocket canyon.
Glendale fire officials couldn't be reached immediately for comment, but the city's Twitter account said Glenoaks Canyon and Glenoaks School were evacuated.
Always ahead of the spa-industry curve, especially in matters health-related, Canyon Ranch recently began offering a comprehensive biomarker exam, the Biophysical250, to clients at its Tucson and Lenox, Massachusetts locations. (Its Miami Beach residential community, Canyon Ranch Living, will start offering the test in July.) For more than two decades, Canyon Ranch's physicians have principally worked as "preventive health consultants, " according to corporate medical director Mark Liponis, M.
Though it's not the deepest or the widest canyon in the world, it retains its popularity through sheer force of its beauty.
The top pick in the natural wonders category is far more visible, especially from the beaches of Waikiki: Diamond Head State Monument in Honolulu tops the list, followed by the Grand Canyon, Northern California's Muir Woods and other awe-inspiring natural sites in the United States and beyond.
On Palm Canyon Drive, the city's main thoroughfare, flowers are piled around a sidewalk star bearing Bono's name.
In 2012, Harnish's first trip to California included golf at Big Canyon Country Club, a visit to Disneyland and parties galore.
It may be tempting to print money to fill the gap--except that it's about to yawn as wide as the Grand Canyon.
Tom Udall proudly lists the wilderness areas he has preserved and speaks of his father's decision not to build a dam in the Grand Canyon.
With a planned hydropower capacity of 5.25 gigawatts and a flooded canyon twice as voluminous as the country's largest lake, it is the centrepiece of a plan to increase the country's electricity supply fivefold by 2015.
Outside of actual treatments, the spa excels in its other offerings, particularly the cooking and nutritional counseling provided by the refreshingly down-to-earth Laurie Erickson (late of Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires, she's tried to wean the resort's kitchens off bacon fat, with some success).
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