When Leo Tolstoy was five years old, his brother Nikolay came to him and said he had engraved the secret to universal happiness on a little green stick, which he had hidden in a ravine on the family's estate in Russia.

The Lake Nyos disaster resulted from a volcanic event, which very suddenly released as much as a cubic kilometre of gas from a pool of naturally occurring under the lake in a deep narrow valley.

The Loukkos River (واد لوكوس) is a major river in northern Morocco.

WOE TO THOSE who give short measure ,

Ruin is for the defrauders . ( Those who measure less . )

Woe to the stinters who ,

Woe Unto the scrimpers

Woe to Al Mutaffifin those who give less in measure and weight ( decrease the rights of others ) ,

Woe to the defrauders .

Woe to the stinters

Woe unto the defrauders

Woe to the defrauders , who use short measures ,

Woe to the diminishers ,

Woe to those who give less than due ,

Woe to those who are fraudulent in ( weighing and measuring ) ,

Woe to the defrauders ,

Woe to those who give short measure ,

Woe to those that deal in fraud ,

This belt fits me too tightly.

Wade s shortcomings have also hurt Senegal s economy.

In downtown Dakar citizens celebrated the peaceful end of the Wade regime.

Like I say, it's a tight knit community.

This is a clear but very narrow standard.

Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me yet thy commandments are my delights.

After the two cordilleras converge, the Cauca Valley becomes a deep gorge all the way to the Caribbean lowlands.

More recently, Karim Wade, the son of former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, was arrested on suspicion that he amassed a fortune of roughly 1.5 billion during his father s presidency, when he held senior ministerial positions.

Success needs to be defined narrowly.

Time constraints are not an issue.

The music has to have a soothing rhythm and a rather narrow musical range.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

We have heard its report our hands become feeble anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.

For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

For he hath delivered me out of all trouble and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.

We have heard the fame thereof our hands wax feeble anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened

In 2000, they enthusiastically went to the polls to elect Abdoulaye Wade as their president.

An early strong critic of Wade, Talla Sylla, had his face beaten with a hammer.

The protests kicked off after Friday prayers in a mosque in Wad Nubawi neighborhood in Omdurman.

More recently, Karim Wade, the son of former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, was arrested on suspicion that he amassed a fortune of roughly 1.5 billion during his father s presidency, when he held senior ministerial positions.

The Bush administration, in bad need of a democratic Muslim ally, wants Wade to fill that bill, and seems to have decided, in the words of one high, but disappointed, US official, to give Wade a pass.