Bhutan s rugged geography fostered the rise of a hardy population of farmers and herdsmen, and helped to foster a strong Buddhist culture, closely connected in history with Tibet.

The population density is very low due to the mountainous terrain and scarcity of water.

The largely rural life in early New Zealand led to the image of New Zealanders being rugged, industrious problem solvers.

The extent of the damage is still unfolding as rescue teams reach out to remote and inaccessible mountainous areas.

She carved out a successful business career in the rough and tumble of the post Soviet gas industry.

So, you always find dinosaurs in deserts or badlands, areas that have very little plant growth and have flash floods in the spring.

Moral secularism at its best was on full display from the rugged streets of Sidi Bouzid to the imposing refinement of Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis.

I work next to Cairo University and this area has transformed over night. The bumpy streets leading to the University are now as smooth as silk.

These are the major questions looming before us as the president elect prepares the American people for what can only be a rough ride ahead.

By supporting Islamist rulers, the US is contributing to a trend evident from the Maghreb to the badlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan Muslims killing Muslims.

Unlike the fracas over an American missile shield in Europe, this conflict shows no signs of blowing over, and threatens to damage further the rocky relationship between Russia and the West.

And, while some young people use higher education to escape a rocky job market, their choice to build new skills should not negatively impact perceptions of their country s economic health.

It was not thought possible for the Soviets to deploy large number of troops in this rugged and almost roadless area, but the Soviets deployed an entire division which advanced along the road between Suojärvi and Tolvajärvi (now Tolvayarvi, Russia).

Onto this fiercely contested terrain marches the United Kingdom s Independent banking Commission, set up last year by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, with a brief to examine possible structural reforms to the banking system aimed at safeguarding financial stability and competition.

But it faces great difficulties and is largely restricted to the rough country on the Afghanistan Pakistan border where the Monitoring Team has witnessed at first hand the efforts of the Afghan and Pakistan forces and the tremendous physical problems they face.

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From Bangkok, the line will run east through Cambodia and north through Vietnam to Hanoi, then through Laos and back to Kunming.

Electrons flow from the negative terminal of the power supply up the negative rail, across the projectile, and down the positive rail, back to the power supply.

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A Trans Atlantic Transition

Transatlantic Trade Offs

Transatlantic Drift

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Advocacy through video

From the Public Domain.

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They look down on their populations from millions of portraits and instruct them from TV screens and newspaper pages.

It started as a college with three departments under the old Japanese system of higher education.

The distribution of information by electronic means, in particular through the Internet, is a major achievement.

A song must be heard in sequence over time, and you must play it back in sequence over time.

Indian netizens have exploded with rage and disbelief while expressing their reactions.

Lima residents expressed their opinions on Twitter using the hashtag humedad .

41,089,675 passengers passed through Norwegian airports in 2007, of which 13,397,458 were international.

Meanwhile, the protests continue across Macedonia. On social networks, on the ground information is shared via the hashtags ColorfulRevolution and Macedonia in English, ШаренаРеволуција and протестирам in Macedonian, and RevolucioniLaraman and protestoj in Albanian.

And then from about 500 years ago, humans began to link up globally through shipping, through trains, through telegraph, through the Internet, until now we seem to form a single global brain of almost seven billion individuals.

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We walked through thick bushes.

You want to go via the tunnel?

Sami crawled into the window.

Sami crawled in through this window.

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